________________________________ From: Zefram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 8/27/2006 3:07 PM To: datetime Subject: Re: month_name() returns UTF-8 or Latin-1?
> That refers to the internal UTF-8 flag on the string. That means it's > internally represented using UTF-8, which usually means that the > string being represented is Unicode, not UTF-8. The variable is in Perl's internal encoding. If you need to have the variable in a specific encoding, you need to use the Encode module or an IO layer. It also really does happen to be in UTF-8. "ao\303\273t" Philip