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>>>>> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:27:48 +0000, nick@ing-simmons.net (Nick Ing-Simmons) said: > Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> writes: >> "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. print chr 9729 dies with the "Wide character in print" error from patch 8058 through 8494 for me. On Linux. binmode STDOUT, ":utf8"; print chr 9729; works. Should we not presume STDOUT to be utf8-aware? Or am I missing a Configure option? -- andreasThread Previous | Thread Next