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2013/9/1 Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> > And $! remains an outlier in the sense that it is AFAIK, and I've looked > hard (perhaps not hard enough), now the only place (except for some POSIX:: > routines) where the program's underlying current locale leaks outside the > scope of 'use locale'. > But that is not the only place, where non-ASCII character can appear. The following is documented in perlunicode: "While Perl does have extensive ways to input and output in Unicode, and a few other "entry points" like the @ARGV array (which can sometimes be interpreted as UTF-8), there are still many places where Unicode (in some encoding or another) could be given as arguments or received as results, or both, but it is not." I believe that note can mean that encoded $! is not a bug, but a feature. If it's considered a bug, then all other places where non-ASCII appears encoded, and it's not explicitly documented, can be considered as bug (examples are $0, %INC values, @INC, something else?) Thus it's impossible for people to use those variables now, as it may change anytime in the future.Thread Previous | Thread Next