On Wed, 03 May 2000 17:18:54 BST, Graham Barr wrote:
>> -ok $&, pack("C*", ord(">"), 0342, 0230, 0272);
>> -$test++;
>> +my $tmp = $&;
>> +ok $tmp, pack("C*", ord(">"), 0342, 0230, 0272);
>> +$test++;# 23
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>Not doing a copy there was deliber
On Thu, 04 May 2000 15:33:47 +0200, "Stefan Eissing" wrote:
>Browsing through sv.c, pp.c and friends, what is the design
>philosophy for using SVf_UTF8?
It indicates that character semantics apply for that particular SV.
> join upgrades to utf8, but should eq
>do th
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> Subject: Re: binary compare of scalars
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> On Wed, 03 May 2000 10:19:47 +0200, "Stefan Eissing" wrote:
> >Background: I have patched DBD::Oracle to recognize ut
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 08:47:31AM -0700, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> On Wed, 03 May 2000 10:19:47 +0200, "Stefan Eissing" wrote:
> >Background: I have patched DBD::Oracle to recognize utf8 locale
> >and return utf8 scalars for Perl 5.6.0. It works. In one of the
> >standard tests however, a string
On Wed, 03 May 2000 10:19:47 +0200, "Stefan Eissing" wrote:
>Background: I have patched DBD::Oracle to recognize utf8 locale
>and return utf8 scalars for Perl 5.6.0. It works. In one of the
>standard tests however, a string with utf8 chars is inserted
>into a BLOB, correctly read back again, but n
I need a portable way to compare two strings, one might be utf8
and one in byte semantic. It should work in all 5.x perl versions
without too many $] tests. There is probably a very obvious and
good way to do it (and also more than one), which I do not see.
Can anyone help?
Stefan
Background: I
