Re: Weird interaction of ord, split, and substr with UTF-8?

At 6:20 AM +0100 10/31/00, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
>  >>>>> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:02:25 -0800, Paul Hoffman 
> <phoffman(_at_)proper(_dot_)com> said:
>  > Has anyone else come across this? Is there a way to use ord in a 
> loop after a split
>  > that works?
>
> The bug has been fixed in the development version a while after 5.7.0
> came out. You find instructions on how to get at the patches in the
> perlhack manpage.
Thanks. However, I can't find a patch at 
<http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/> that seems 
related to the bug. I searched for "utf-8 ord". Is there a patch 
number you can give me?
Also, I'd like to distribute my code to others who probably won't 
have a patched system. Thus, I'd love to find a way, even a kludgy 
way, in 5.6.0 to split up a string into utf-8 characters that will 
work with ord. If need be, I could even use Unicode::String, convert 
to a UCS-4, slice into four-octet chunks, then convert them back to a 
UTF-8, but I'd like something less ugly to show the public.