RE: Question about converting utf8 to ascii and char refs

"Siladi, Aaron" <[email protected]> wrote
> Ok so that should work given the string has utf8 flag set.

What's the utf8 flag got to do with it?

Nick's program works for me without the utf8 flag set:

perl -w
use Encode;
my $s = "\x99 4";
use Devel::Peek;
Dump $s;
my $n = encode('ascii',$s,Encode::FB_HTMLCREF);
print "$n\n";
__END__
SV = PV(0x117c08) at 0x122968
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY,POK,pPOK)	<==== look no UTF8
  PV = 0x117480 "\231 4"\0
  CUR = 3
  LEN = 4
&#153; 4


Mike Guy