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On 4 July 2017 at 12:04, <pali@cpan.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 July 2017 11:22:42 demerphq wrote:
>> No. This is a myth. Plain and simply a myth.
>>
>> People have a hard time accepting it, but the utf8 flag tells parts of
>> the internals to use different rules for certain operations, when set
>> those rules are Unicode. When the flag is not set the default rules
>> are derived from ASCII.
>>
>> You can see the difference in the following:
>>
>> "ba\x{DF}"=~/ss/i;
>
> $ perl -E 'say "matched" if "ba\x{DF}"=~/ss/i;'
> matched
>
>> "ba\N{U+DF}"=~/ss/i;
>
> $ perl -E 'say "matched" if "ba\N{U+DF}"=~/ss/i;'
> matched
-E is not -e.
-E is enabling a pragma which changes the default behavior.
However it is *PRAGMA*. It is NOT the normal behavior of Perl.
>> The latter matches because \N{U+DF} produces the unicode code point
>> DF, and the former does not match, because \x{DF} produces the ASCII
>> octet DF instead. The former is an ASCII string, and the later is a
>> Unicode string.
>
> No, both were matched under Perl 5.24.1.
No, they did not. If \x{DF} magically started matching 'ss' it would
be a *MASSIVE* regression.
cheers,
Yves
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