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Postings from February 2007
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 11:33:31PM +0100, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
> Dr.Ruud skribis 2007-02-05 23:09 (+0100):
> > perl -wle '
> > $s = substr "\x{100}\xFF", 1;
> > print length $s, ":", unpack "H*", $s;
> > '
>
> Note that normally, unpack "H*" on a unicode string (like your $s) is a
> violation of proper separation.
Ton supplied a patch that fixed this violation for blead. I was reluctant to
apply it to 5.8.x (for all cases) because there is code out there expecting
the undocumented behaviour to work.
Nicholas Clark