Re^4: Default encoding rules leave me puzzled... (use open qw/ :std :locale /;

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I'm sorry, but I think that your "Perl tries to not convert anything at all, automatically" statement is wrong.
I mean, else, why would a string internally stored as UTF-8 be converted to Latin-1 when sent to the standard output ?
(That is, without having used any funny encoding/decoding/layer stuff...)

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Re^5: Default encoding rules leave me puzzled... (use open qw/ :std :locale /; by moritz (Cardinal) on Jun 20, 2014 at 17:27 UTC
It's your `use utf8;` statement that explicitly converts the source code to perl's internal format, which happens to be latin-1 in this case. The output operation then doesn't convert anything. Maybe I should have said that no implicit conversion takes place, because I don't coutn the `use utf8;` as automatic/implicit. Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Default encoding rules leave me puzzled... (use open qw/ :std :locale /; by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 23, 2014 at 03:28 UTC
I mean, else, why would a string internally stored as UTF-8 be converted to Latin-1 when sent to the standard output ? Because you are printing the string, not its internal representation. The layout of a scalar is irrelevant.	[reply]

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