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> >Probably not.
> >
> >"Wide character in print" means that a string was (internally) marked
> >UTF-8 and the string truly contains > 0xff (wide) characters, and you
> >tried to output that. Since wide characters cannot be output as such
> >(a conversion to bytes is needed, using some character set mapping),
> >print() barfed. This is one of the dreaded "should not happen" cases.
>
> It can happen easily enough, and a PerlIO layer which is tagged as accepting
> utf8 will not give that error but (should) give its own error if it cannot
> represent the character. But we have not changed anything in that area
> recently, so I think print is being fed junk. Possibly (as this is OS390)
> we have one of those EBCDIC issues here.
Yeah, one of Those.
> I suspect Hugo's patch has spuriously set the UTF8 flag - the mix of U8 and
> char that was there before Peter's patch shows wooly UTF8 thinking.
> My gut feeling by the way is that Peter's patch did that backwards - i.e.
> rather than making the variable U8 it should have not-cast SvPV.
Which is, in fact, what I'm trying in my alternate patch.
> --
> Nick Ing-Simmons
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