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On 23/09/2007, Tels <nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com> wrote: > When you don't do "use utf8;" you script is expected to be in latin1 > (iso.-8859-1). (we leave "use locale" out of this for now). Under use utf8, > it can contain any UTF-8. > > However, it seems eval() (or require?) doesn't know about this. Right, there can be double encoding. That will need to be fixed. > Plus, I am > not entirely sure how much Unicode you can use in identifiers as something > like this: > > #!perl > use utf8; > my $€ = 1; > > still fails to compile with: > > Unrecognized character \x82 at t.pl line 5. > > perldoc perlsyn (in 5.8.8) doesn't seem to say anything about identifiers. Identifiers must start with letters; € isn't one. [rafael@stcosmo ~]$ bleadperl -Mutf8 -le '$à=42;print $à' 42 [rafael@stcosmo ~]$ bleadperl -le '$à=42;print $à' Unrecognized character \xA0 in column 3 at -e line 1.Thread Previous | Thread Next