Re^2: Default encoding rules leave me puzzled...

char(231) is LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA

char() takes codepoints, not UTF-8.

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Re^3: Default encoding rules leave me puzzled... by Anonymous Monk on Jun 20, 2014 at 13:41 UTC
What do you mean? I'm pretty sure pack's C* takes C chars, that is, octets, bytes. At least that's what the documentation says. And 231:97 is not a valid utf-8 sequence. So in binary mode Perl encodes codepoints < 256 as Latin-1, otherwise it just spits out utf-8 as is. That's pretty crazy. `perl -CO -wE 'use utf8; say q(Français)' \| perl -lnwE 'print join q(:) +, unpack q(C*), $_' 70:114:97:110:195:167:97:105:115` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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perl -CO -wE 'use utf8; say q(Français)' | perl -lnwE 'print join q(:)
+, unpack q(C*), $_'
70:114:97:110:195:167:97:105:115
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