On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:58:48AM +0530, Sastry wrote:
> Hi
>
> I get 73 printed on EBCDIC platform. I think it is supposed to print
> 129 as it is the numeric equivalent of 'a'.
>
> -Sastry
>
>
>
> On 8/8/05, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On your EBCDIC platform, what does this give?
> >
> >>>>>>> It prints 73
> > use Encode;
> > $string = "a";
> > $enc_string = encode("iso-8859-16", $string);
> >
> > print ord ($enc_string), "\n";
73. Odd.
It should print 97 on all platforms. Because:
$string contains 1 byte, the byte that represents 'a' in the platform's
default character encoding.
The encode call should convert from the default encoding to iso-8859-16
And 'a' in iso-8859-16 is 97.
Everywhere.
So $enc_string should be a single byte, 97, everywhere.
Nicholas Clark
