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From:
Juerd Waalboer
Date:
March 31, 2007 06:44
Subject:
Re: the utf8 flag
Message ID:
20070331134406.GZ31277@c4.convolution.nl
Dr.Ruud skribis 2007-03-31 14:00 (+0200):
> > unicode explicitly is a superset of latin1.
> But there are defined differences:
> $ perl -wle '(chr().chr(255)) =~ /^\s/ and $n++  and print for 0..255;
> $ perl -wle '(chr().chr(256)) =~ /^\s/ and $n++  and print for 0..255;

That's a bug; see also the subthread "fixing the regex engine wrt
unicode" for an overview of why it cannot be fixed, and how it could be
:)
-- 
korajn salutojn,

  juerd waalboer:  perl hacker  <juerd@juerd.nl>  <http://juerd.nl/sig>
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Ik vertrouw stemcomputers niet.
Zie <http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/>.
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