Jeffrey Friedl (lists.p5p):
>It's not because I put the extra zeros (0x00E2 vs. 0xE2) that I thought it
>should convert to utf8 for me, but because it was utf8 mode and I was
>asking for the CHaRacter with value 0xE2.
Ooh, uhm, er. Don't know. Jarkko? I'm happy to patch it if that's what
it should be.
>Here's a semi-related question. If I have a string of bytes that I know
>to be valid UTF-8, how can I get Perl to consider them as such?
In bleadperl, pack("U*") will do it.
> I'd hoped that I could just stuff them into a string in a 'use bytes' block
This way lies madness. :)
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