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On Wednesday 23 October 2002 17:20, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> How can I calculate the MD5 message digest of a Unicode string in
> Perl 5.8? The MD5 hash algorithm naturally expects a sequence of
> bytes as its input, and I have a string with a sequence of
> characters. I tried
>
> $ perl -e 'use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex); print md5_hex("\x{20ac}");'
> Wide character in subroutine entry at -e line 1.
The problem is in \x{20ac}. If you place the character in UTF-8 encoding
in place of the escape, it works perfectly. If you have real UTF-8
data, not perl escapes, then there is no problem.
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