I'm having trouble using 5.8.0 Encode with the MacArabic code table.
(It took a long time to figure out the cause, and I still don't
understand where Encode gets/keeps its info about character mappings.)
The problem affects all the points in the MacArabic table whose Unicode
correlates include
Hi,
Please comment on my finding below and see if I have understood Unicode
support in Perl correctly.
Internally, Perl represent character strings in UTF8. The PerlIO layer for
input and output enables other encodings to be used for STDIN, STDOUT,
STDERR and filehandling operations. For instance
