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> > perl -le 'use Devel::Peek; $a = sprintf "%v", $^V; Dump($a)'
>
> The last one even in a UNIX tells us:
Uhhh, I should've said: "a variation of the last one", I was using
sprintf("%vd", v128.256). My perl version isn't v128.256 :-)
> SV = PV(0x140001ec0) at 0x140001b40
> REFCNT = 1
> FLAGS = (POK,READONLY,pPOK,UTF8)
> PV = 0x140014030 "128.256"\0
> CUR = 7
> LEN = 9
>
> Ho-hum, what's the UTF8 flag doing in there? It's not wrong as
> such -- in ASCII, that is. In EBCDIC, that's bad news since the
> digits are >127.
Off-hand, I think only the %s and %c formats should generate UTF-8,
and only if needed (DO_UTF8(sv) or c > 255).
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