develooper Front page | perl.perl5.porters | Postings from May 2008

Re: on broken manpages, trolling, inconsistent implementation andthe difficulty to fix bugs

Thread Previous | Thread Next
From:
Aristotle Pagaltzis
Date:
May 20, 2008 14:34
Subject:
Re: on broken manpages, trolling, inconsistent implementation andthe difficulty to fix bugs
Message ID:
20080520213410.GF6738@klangraum.plasmasturm.org
* Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> [2008-05-20 03:00]:
>     (2) The troubles of getting Unicodish action on codepoints
>         in the U+0080 .. U+OOFF range.
> 
>         eg:  % perl -E 'say chr(0xdf)'
>              ß
>              % perl -E 'say ucfirst chr(0xdf)'
>              ß
>              % perl -E 'use utf8; say ucfirst chr(0xdf)'
>              ß
>              % perl -E 'use encoding "latin1"; say ucfirst chr(0xdf)'
>              Ss

Just as a sidenote, the consensus in a recent thread was that the
`encoding` pragma is broken and deprecated.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Thread Previous | Thread Next


nntp.perl.org: Perl Programming lists via nntp and http.
Comments to Ask Bjørn Hansen at ask@perl.org | Group listing | About