Re: CGI::Util unescape() after escape() loses utf8 flag

 >On closer inspection of the source, I see that the "unescape" function can

>accept a string like /u([0-9a-fA-F]{4})/ as well as /%([0-9a-fA-F]{2})/,
>and it will correctly set the utf8 flag when decoding a string that matches
>the former form; but the "escape" function can only produce the latter
>form.
>
>Perhaps it might be time to add an optional argument to "escape", that 
>would allow for creating the "uHHHH" form?  It would be simple enough to 
>do, I'd expect.
>  
>
Isn't this what the first match is doing. And should that be 
/u[0-9a-fA-F]{4,6}/ to allow for multi-lingual plane stuff?

Martin Hosken