On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:24:42AM +0200, demerphq wrote:
> > it turns out perl is totally borked for
> >
> > $utf8 =~ /latin1/i
> > and
> >
> > $latin1 =~ /$utf8/i
> >
> > unless all the chars happen to be < 0x7f.
>
> The case where the pattern is /(foo|bar)/ is handled by a totally
> different codepath in blead, does it also fail there? I seem to recall
> that I put in tests for this, but possibly im wrong. Im flying on
> holiday in less than 24 hours and i doubt Ill be able to check until i
> return at the end of the month.
$ ./perl -Ilib -wle '$x="\xe9\x{100}";chop$x; print 1 if $x=~/(abc|\xe9)/i'
1
$ ./perl -Ilib -wle '$x="\xe9\x{100}";chop$x; print 1 if "\xe9"=~/(abc|$x)/i'
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x00, immediately
after start byte 0xe9) in pattern match (m//) at -e line 1.
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