On 2011-02-14, Klaus Ethgen <[email protected]> wrote: > ~> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "\x{00a3}\n";' > ~> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "\x{00a3}\n";' | cat > Both gives the same result, a '£' sign as expected.
And what's the value in that demonstration? Yes, you can treat UTF8 like a bytestream. And the thread was about the problems that can arise of this. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
