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From:
Aristotle Pagaltzis
Date:
November 22, 2011 02:39
Subject:
Re: Unicode Changes in 5.15.4?
Message ID:
20111122103943.GC23346@klangraum.plasmasturm.org
* David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> [2011-11-22 06:00]:
> On Nov 21, 2011, at 11:14 PM, Eric Brine wrote:
> >It should return "fünky", but there's no promise that it's going to
> >be returned in a UTF8=1 string. As far as I can remember "use utf8;"
> >has not consistently returned UTF8=1 strings.
>
> Not for an ASCII-only string, certainly, but surely for one with
> a multibyte character:

There is no code point > 255 in “fünky”, so there is no reason it can’t
be represented in a UTF8=0 string.

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