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Re: [PATCH: perl@8892] treat unicoding and null bytes in op/append.t

From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
February 22, 2001 17:55
Subject:
Re: [PATCH: perl@8892] treat unicoding and null bytes in op/append.t
Message ID:
20010222195500.Z21295@chaos.wustl.edu
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:23:59PM -0800, Peter Prymmer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Without the following patch the odd numbered t/op/append.t tests in
> the last block fail on attempts to print wide characters in the # test
> comments.  For example:
> 
>  $ ./perl op/append.t.orig
>  Wide character in print at op/append.t.orig line 43.
>  1..13
>  #1      :abcdef: eq :abcdef:
>  ok 1
>  #2      :abcdefxyz: eq :abcdefxyz:
>  ok 2
>  #3      :abcdef: eq :abcdef:
>  ok 3
>  ok 4
>  ok 5
>  ok 6
> 
> Here is the fix:

Ummm.  I don't know about thid patch.  It's rather smack middle of
the still open Unicode-vs-EBCDIC issues and contains the contentious
unpack U...  oh well, I'll apply it for now.

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