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On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 12:34:55PM +0100, Gisle Aas wrote:
> > Hmm??? Please no DWIM here. Programmers would like to know what
> > their string literals mean. Or did I misunderstand you?
>
> We have two options here. Either to croak or to convert. After my
> patch the last thing happens.
>
> $ ./perl -MDevel::Peek -e 'Dump("å")'
> SV = PV(0x817de08) at 0x8156028
> REFCNT = 1
> FLAGS = (POK,READONLY,pPOK)
> PV = 0x815c088 "\345"\0
> CUR = 1
> LEN = 2
>
> $ ./perl -MDevel::Peek -e 'use utf8; Dump("å")'
> Malformed UTF-8 character at -e line 1.
> SV = PV(0x81563b4) at 0x816009c
> REFCNT = 1
> FLAGS = (POK,READONLY,pPOK,UTF8)
> PV = 0x817b480 "\303\245"\0
> CUR = 2
> LEN = 3
I would rather croak...
Ilya