"Don't use the \C escape in regexes" - taken from Juerd's Unicode Advice page:
http://juerd.nl/site.plp/perluniadvice Why not? ------ perldoc perlre: \C Match a single C char (octet) even under Unicode. NOTE: breaks up characters into their UTF-8 bytes, so you may end up with malformed pieces of UTF-8. Unsupported in lookbehind. ------ URI::Escape sub escape_char { return join '', @URI::Escape::escapes{$_[0] =~ /(\C)/g}; } The regular expression is used to disassemble an incoming text string into individual bytes (and then use the resulting list in a hash slice). It is a legitimate use case, and the means seems to do the job. What's the problem with the \C escape? -- Michael.Ludwig (#) XING.com
