Marco Baroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the quick reply. > > > A workaround can be to pass it encoded UTF8. > > Excuse me my persistent confusion, but what does this mean, in concrete?
The stuff that encode_utf8() returns (see 'perldoc Encode') or you get from a UTF-8 file read in binary mode. These will be byte strings (octets), i.e. all chars have ord() less < 256 and will *not* have the internal UTF8 flag set. Regards, Gisle