On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:23:49PM -0500, Tay, William wrote:
> Internally, Perl represent character strings in UTF8. The PerlIO layer for
> input and output enables other encodings to be used for STDIN, STDOUT,
> STDERR and filehandling operations. For instance, if ru_RU.KOI8-R is
> specified (use
Porters,
In the recent discussion in various perl-related MLs in Japanese, I
have discovered a problem that the encoding pragma does not work on
such multibyte encodings as Shift_JIS which uses 0x00-0x7f ranges in
the 2nd byte. Though not test I am pretty sure big5 is also prone to
this.
