On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:06:19AM +1300, Andrew McNaughton wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> > Andrew McNaughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >use utf8;
> > >use charnames ':full';
> > >$text .= "\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS}";
> > >
> > >
> > >This fails because of the final line of &charnames::charnames. It returns an
> > >8 bit value.
> >
> > It is an 8-bit value - that is the UNICODE codepoint is < 256.
>
> The unicode codepoint may be less than 256, but in utf8 2 byte characters
> start from codepoint 128, not 256.
Why do you think that Perl should encode this in UTF8?
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