Chas. Owens wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 15:25, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <nore...@gunnar.cc> wrote:
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Yeah, it looks so. With "use utf8" (http://perldoc.perl.org/utf8.html) one
can however make them parsed (decoded) (provided they are valid UTF-8).
No. The utf8 pragma is about allowing UTF-8 encoded *symbols*, e.g. variable
names or subroutine names.
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From perldoc utf8[1]:
Bytes in the source text that have their high-bit set will be
treated as being part of a literal UTF-X sequence. This includes
most literals such as identifier names, string constants, and
constant regular expression patterns.
The utf8 pragma affects the whole file,
Well, only the part of the file that is parsed after the
use utf8;
statement, right?
not just variable and subroutine names.
Yes, I agree on that now. Thanks for the correction.
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