Re: Character Encodings

[John Delacour]

At 12:17 pm +1100 25/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

...let me reduce my question to this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$str = 'it's a smart quote';
if ($str =~ m/\x{2019}/){
  print "found"
} else {
  print "not found"
}

BBEdit confirms that the third char in 'it's a smart quote' is 2019, but the regex doesn't match, with or without "use utf8".

"use utf8" does nothing.  Try this:

        #!/usr/bin/perl
        use encoding "utf-8";
        $str = 'it’s a smart quote';
        if ($str =~ m/\x{2019}/){
          print "found"
        } else {
          print "\x{2019} not found"
        }

JD