> It only works for UTF-8, not for other encodings (perl-5.8.4): As documented and intended.
> $ perl -C -e 'print chr(0x104), "\n"' > Wide character in print at -e line 1. > [gibberish output, UTF-8-reinterpreted-as-ISO-8859-2] > > The default encoding (of the locale and of the terminal) is ISO-8859-2, > which *is* capable of representing U+0104. perl -Mencoding=latin2 -e 'print chr(0x104), "\n"' gives you what you want. > In summary, some parts of Perl treat non-UTF-8 scalars as ISO-8859-1, > while others treat is as whatever is expected by default in files and > filenames and commandline (the locale tells what it is). It should be > decided one way or the other, otherwise generic code doesn't know how to > interpret Perl scalars it encounters. "generic code"? If you mean Perl, you can use utf8::is_utf8(). If you mean XS, you can use SvUTF8(). -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
