On 30 Jun 2009, at 14:13, André Warnier wrote:
I /would/ have expected it if I was /not/ specifying an encoding, like using simply '>'. But not when I am explicitly specifying '>:raw', which in my mind, and according to my interpretation of the on-line documentation, is equivalent to saying "output whatever you have as bytes in that string variable right now, as is, I know what I'm doing".
You have that bit right - but the string doesn't contain bytes[1] - it contains characters. Strings can either be an octet stream or a stream of wide characters. By reading utf8 into a string you've turned it into the latter. Perl's warning that you're pushing character data into an octet hole.
[1] of course it's /made/ of bytes but that's not how Perl sees it. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten
