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On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 07:15:01AM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:53:47PM +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> > >>>>> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 12:28:52 +0100 , "Roca, Ignasi" <ignasi.roca@fujitsu.siemens.es> said:
> >
> > > Strings with \x{..} in the middle are corrupted, test 22 of op/bop.t fails.
> > > This happens in the paragrah that recodes what is accumulated before first
> > > \x{...}.
> >
> > FWIW, op/bop.t doesn't fail for me with patches upto 8327 neither
> > before nor after your patch. Maybe you can think of another test that
>
> Maybe something to do with ASCIIish assumptions (didn't look at the
> patch yet, so I'm guessing)? Mr. Ignasi hails from EBCDIC lands.
Yes, it seems that the code once again assumed ASCII encoding, the raw
& 0x80 tells us that. I actually already had changed that to be
abstracted behind a macro, UTF8_IS_CONTINUED(). Next we'll need to
define these macros in EBCDIC correctly (mapping to ASCII and back).
Simon Cozens already had some patches to this effect a few weeks back,
I'll go dig.
> > would fail for me?
> >
> > BTW, the patch arrived here line-wrapped. I fixed that manually and
> > applied with -l. Maybe you should resubmit as an attachment and
> > include your perl -V.
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