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

At 8:01 AM +0100 11/1/00, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
>  >>>>> On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:03:24 -0800, Paul Hoffman 
> <phoffman(_at_)proper(_dot_)com> said:
>   >          $ThisOrd = utf8($ThisChar)->ord;
>
> Replace that by
>
>          $ThisOrd = $ThisChar->ord;
>
> substr already returns objects, now when you call a function on it, it
> will be interpreted as a method and convert the object back to a UTF-8
> encoded string.
Thanks! This helped me find another similar error in my program. It 
is tempting to treat the $us's as regular strings.