perl-unicode

Re: Weird behavior of encoding & open pragmas

2004-08-17 13:30:06
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak(_at_)knm(_dot_)org(_dot_)pl> writes:
$ perl -e 'use encoding "ISO-8859-2"; use open ":encoding(ISO-8859-2)"; print
ord($ARGV[0]), chr(260), $ARGV[0], "\n"' Ą "\x{00a1}" does not map to iso-8859-
2 at -e line 1. 260Ą\x{00a1}

I don't understand it: ord($ARGV[0]) is 260, chr(260) can be printed, yet
$ARGV[0] cannot be printed?

Which part of Perl performs the recoding of @ARGV here?

I thing this is another double encoding issue - needs more thought...

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