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On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:42:37AM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > On 23/09/2007, Tels <nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com> wrote: > > When you don't do "use utf8;" you script is expected to be in latin1 > > (iso.-8859-1). (we leave "use locale" out of this for now). Under use utf8, > > it can contain any UTF-8. > > > > However, it seems eval() (or require?) doesn't know about this. > > Right, there can be double encoding. That will need to be fixed. I disagree. The only extra encoding is manual here. The call to utf8::upgrade is performing that encoding step explicitly at the user's request. I call no bug. > > > Plus, I am > > not entirely sure how much Unicode you can use in identifiers as something > > like this: > > > > #!perl > > use utf8; > > my $? = 1; > > > > still fails to compile with: > > > > Unrecognized character \x82 at t.pl line 5. > > > > perldoc perlsyn (in 5.8.8) doesn't seem to say anything about identifiers. > > Identifiers must start with letters; ? isn't one. > > [rafael@stcosmo ~]$ bleadperl -Mutf8 -le '$à=42;print $à' > 42 > [rafael@stcosmo ~]$ bleadperl -le '$à=42;print $à' > Unrecognized character \xA0 in column 3 at -e line 1. -- Chip SalzenbergThread Previous | Thread Next