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Zefram wrote: > Currently, when an attempt is made to print a non-Latin-1 character to > a byte-oriented stream, the entire string containing that character > is output nevertheless, implicitly UTF-8 encoded. I think we should > deprecate this behaviour, ultimately making this situation signal an > exception. I am opposed. I write one-liners *all the time* and frequently get the Wide Character warnings, but I am glad that perl just goes ahead and spits out what I want it to spit out (with a warning, which I ignore). For real programs, you get an annoying warning, which should be enough of a red flag. It is a default warning for a reason.Thread Previous | Thread Next