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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
January 9, 2012 11:46
Subject:
Re: pack and ASCII
Message ID:
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On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally, it makes no sense to me to pass pack "A" a character
> string in the first place, if only because it relies on the internal
> encoding of perl for its result, but to return a character string is
> just plain wrong.
>
It stopped relying on the internal encoding in 5.10. Since then, it works
the same for both string storage formats.
- Eric
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