Hi all,
The following code:
use utf8;
use diagnostics;
BEGIN {binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';}
use Test::More tests => 1;
# those are smart quotes
diag "This is a \x{201c}test\x{201d}";
ok 1;
Produces the following error message:
1..1
Wide character in print at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.5/Test/Builder.pm
line 1005 (#1)
(W utf8) Perl met a wide character (>255) when it wasn't expecting
one. This warning is by default on for I/O (like print). The
easiest
way to quiet this warning is simply to add the :utf8 layer to the
output, e.g. binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'. Another way to turn off the
warning is to add no warnings 'utf8'; but that is often closer to
cheating. In general, you are supposed to explicitly mark the
filehandle with an encoding, see open and perlfunc/binmode.
# This is a �test�
ok 1
And looking at line 1005:
sub _print_diag {
my $self = shift;
local($\, $", $,) = (undef, ' ', '');
my $fh = $self->todo ? $self->todo_output : $self->failure_output;
print $fh @_; # here there be smart quotes
}
There are a few strange paths in the code which could be causing this
(I'm wondering about the autoflush), but I was wondering if anyone has
seen this and knows how to cope with it? As you can see, I've tried
that standard binmode ':utf8' and using utf8, but to no avail.
Cheers,
Ovid
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