Re: Encoding iso-8859-16

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:58:48AM +0530, Sastry wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I get 73 printed on EBCDIC platform.  I think it is supposed to print 
> 129 as it is the numeric equivalent of 'a'.
> 
> -Sastry
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/8/05, Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> wrote:

> > On your EBCDIC platform, what does this give?
> > 
> >>>>>>> It prints 73 
> > use Encode;
> > $string = "a";
> > $enc_string = encode("iso-8859-16", $string);
> > 
> > print ord ($enc_string), "\n";

73. Odd.

It should print 97 on all platforms. Because:

$string contains 1 byte, the byte that represents 'a' in the platform's
default character encoding.

The encode call should convert from the default encoding to iso-8859-16
And 'a' in iso-8859-16 is 97.
Everywhere.

So $enc_string should be a single byte, 97, everywhere.

Nicholas Clark