As you see, tr/// is not subject to the magic of 'use encoding'.
jhi, have we made it so deliberately ? I am begging to think tr///
Not deliberately, no. I agree that making tr/// to understand
'use encoding' would be good.
is happier to enbrace the power thereof.
Still, it can be overcome by simple eval qq{} as illustrated. This
much idiom would not hurt much, at least not as much as the Cookbook
sample....
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Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this
special
biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
