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On 18 June 2013 15:29, Father Chrysostomos via RT
<perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
> On Tue Jun 18 06:17:15 2013, sprout wrote:
>> All our printf-style functions *do* support utf8, but just not as a
>> separate flag. The input must be a HEK or SV. Look for instances of
>> HEKf and SVf in the perl source.
>>
>> Now, it has just occurred to be that it would not be at all hard to add
>> support for utf8 char*s. We have pretty much infinite space in %-p
>> formats, so we can define %-4p to whatever we want.
>>
>> The latter would not be necessary for fixing this bug, but it may be a
>> good thing to do anyway, and it might turn out to be the simplest way to
>> fix this bug.
>
> And this is what it would look like in practice;
>
> Perl_croak("Couldn't twiggle the twoggle in \"%"UTF8f"\"", is_utf8, s);
>
> UTF8f could take two arguments, the first being a boolean. That would
> be the most useful way to implement it.
Very nice idea! ++FC.
Yves
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