PS to Sticky $escmode in 2.0b7: bug? (fwd)

[Eric-Olivier Le Bigot]

PS : I'm not looking for a way of getting the output I expected, because I
rewrote the code I used differently.  However, if the code I cited is
incorrectly interpreted by Embperl, it would be nice to have the problem
fixed, so that other people do not waste time with such a bug.  But I may
be incorrectly expecting a certain result, hence my orginal question
(feature or bug?).


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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:29:38 +0200 (DFT)
From: Eric-Olivier Le Bigot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sticky $escmode in 2.0b7: bug?



  Hello,

I would like to change the HTML escaping mode inside a [- -] block; I
thought the following piece of code would do it:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[-
local $escmode = 7;
print OUT "�ric\n";
local $escmode = 0;
print OUT "�ric\n";
-]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

but the HTML source produced by Embperl 2.0b7 is

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
&eacute;ric
&eacute;ric
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

whereas I was expecting

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
&eacute;ric
�ric
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  Is it a feature or a bug?

  EOL

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