>>>>> On Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:57:45 -0800, Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Thanks. However, I can't find a patch at
> <http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/> that
> seems related to the bug. I searched for "utf-8 ord". Is there a
> patch number you can give me?
7164.
> Also, I'd like to distribute my code to others who probably won't
> have a patched system. Thus, I'd love to find a way, even a kludgy
> way, in 5.6.0 to split up a string into utf-8 characters that will
> work with ord. If need be, I could even use Unicode::String,
> convert to a UCS-4, slice into four-octet chunks, then convert them
> back to a UTF-8, but I'd like something less ugly to show the
> public.
I'd highly recommend falling back to Unicode::String, there are too
many bugs in all perls since the model was changed from marking code
to marking strings. You do not need UCS-4 for your example, there is
$u->substr and $u->ord!
--
andreas
