Am 03.02.2010 um 08:55 schrieb Aristotle Pagaltzis:
* Michael Ludwig <michael(_dot_)ludwig(_at_)xing(_dot_)com> [2010-02-02
17:35]:
use encoding 'utf8';
The `encoding` pragma is broken. Do not use it.
You want
use open ':encoding(UTF-8)', ':std';
Thanks, Aristotle - that works correctly!
I'm also including a pointer to another posting of yours,
which goes into more detail about how it is broken, and
which confirms and explains my observation.
# Why do my Perl tests fail with `use encoding ‘utf8’`?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/492838/
I think the manpage should say that \x escapes do not work
for codepoints from x80 through xFF when "use encoding 'utf8'.
It looks like they're replaced by codepoint U+FFFD, which is
the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/FFFD/index.htm
The manpage says something about that character range (under
CAVEATS > DO NOT MIX MULTIPLE ENCODINGS), but I don't quite
understand what it says.
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