On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:32:46AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 05:09 PM 3/23/2001 -0800, Damien Neil wrote:
> >So the results of ord are dependent on a global setting for "current
> >character set" or some such, not on the encoding of the string that
> >is passed to it?
>
> Nope, ord is dependent on the string it gets, as those strings know what
> their encoding is. chr is the one dependent on the current default encoding.
So $c = chr(ord($c)) could change $c? That seems odd.
In what other circumstances will the encoding of a string be
visible to the programmer? Not when printing the string to
a file handle, I would think -- that should be controlled by
the encoding on the handle. Are there any other cases where
encoding matters?
- Damien
