Jan Dubois schrieb am 09.09.2010 um 13:13 (-0700): > > Without the utf8 pragma, identifiers are not allowed to have > > funny characters. (Yes, it was a stupid exercise.) > > The Perl parser is internally not UTF8-clean, so I would recommend > not to use non-ASCII characters in variable names for now, even if > it looks like it mostly works under "utf8".
Okay. I can certainly get by without non-ASCII variable names. > >From perltodo.pod: > > | =head2 Properly Unicode safe tokeniser and pads. > | > | The tokeniser isn't actually very UTF-8 clean. C<use utf8;> is a > | hack - variable names are stored in stashes as raw bytes, without > | the utf-8 flag set. The pad API only takes a C<char *> pointer, > | so that's all bytes too. The tokeniser ignores the UTF-8-ness of > | C<PL_rsfp>, or any SVs returned from source filters. All this > | could be fixed. Thanks - I didn't know this doc. -- Michael Ludwig
