Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

> $ perl -e 'use encoding "ISO-8859-2"; use open ":encoding(ISO-8859-2)"; print 
> ord($ARGV[0]), chr(260), $ARGV[0], "\n"' Ą
> "\x{00a1}" does not map to iso-8859-2 at -e line 1.
> 260Ą\x{00a1}
> 
> I don't understand it: ord($ARGV[0]) is 260, chr(260) can be printed,
> yet $ARGV[0] cannot be printed?
> 
> Which part of Perl performs the recoding of @ARGV here?

It seems that my recent patch helps here, somehwta:

$ ./perl -Ilib -e 'use encoding "ISO-8859-2"; use open
":encoding(ISO-8859-2)"; print ord($ARGV[0]), chr(260), $ARGV[0], "\n"' Ą
Wide character in print at -e line 1.
260Ä
    Ą

(Sorry about linewrap, my MUA insists...)

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