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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 03:02:00AM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > I'm saying you call an explicit function, eg to_utf8(), which gives
> > you back a string such that if you say "substr $str, 0, 1", you get
> > the first byte of the UTF-8 representation, and "length $str" is the
> > length of the UTF-8 representation. Period.
>
> I wonder if this would work:
>
> sub to_utf8 {
> use bytes;
> return $_[0]
> }
Won't work quite like that, copying the $_[0] to the return stack
copies everything including the UTF8-ness, use bytes does not play
a role here.
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