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On 03/27/2014 04:57 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> [2014-03-27 03:10]: >> Another possibility to get programs like ack to work unchanged is to >> add a non-printing above-Latin1 character to the stringification of $! >> when it is UTF-8 and there are only Latin1 characters in it. >> A possibility is a ZERO WIDTH SPACE. Then do_print() wouldn't try to >> downgrade. The drawback is that code that analyzes $! could be thrown >> off. But code generally should be analyzing the numeric value anyway, >> and not the string representation > > Maybe you can attach magic that prevents a downgrade? > That sounds like a better approach, but it is an area that I know essentially nothing about. If I were to do it, it seems not so likely that I could get it right by 5.20; I don't know how hard it would be for someone experienced in the magical arts of Perl™. Likewise, adding the ZERO WIDTH SPACE would need to be done early in the development cycle to see what might break, not late, so shouldn't be considered as a 5.20 solution.Thread Previous