Re: [EXPERIMENTAL] 1st draft of Encode

[Dominic Dunlop]

At 18:00 +0200 2000-09-13, Philip Newton wrote:
>What's Perl's take on characters where ord($c) > 0xffff, anyway?

It seems to Just Work, as this one-ish-liner shows:

% perl -we '$s.=chr(16**$_-1) for(1..9); \
printf "%#10x\n", ord($t) while $t=substr($s,0,1,"")'
        0xf
       0xff
      0xfff
     0xffff
    0xfffff
   0xffffff
  0xfffffff
0xffffffff
0xffffffff

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Dominic Dunlop