On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:08:38PM -0000, echang @ pixar. com wrote:
> When the following is read in from a file and then printed out using
> Data::Dumper, the y-umlaut character causes the newline character right
> after to be printed without a leading \.
>
> Input file:
>
> parser: parse error near "ÿ"
>
> So when this is dumped to a file in perl code it should be printed out as:
>
> parser: parse error near \"ÿ\"
>
> but instead it's printed as:
>
> parser: parse error near \"\377"
>
>
> Since the " no longer has the leading slash, the quote contexts are
> messed up in the perl output file Data::Dumper creates. Also the change
> from y-umlaut to \377 is a problem, but not as big as the missing \ on
> the ".
Do you have a short, self-contained script that reproduces the problem?
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