Re^7: Default encoding rules leave me puzzled...

OMG so that's probably what Perl actually does.

Converts in-place the internal representation of the string from UTF-X to the equivalent octet sequence in the native encoding (Latin-1 or EBCDIC).

Yeah, binary print works exactly like utf8::downgrade.

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Re^8: Default encoding rules leave me puzzled... by Anonymous Monk on Jun 21, 2014 at 13:48 UTC
Except it doesn't convert in place... `perl -MEncode=encode -wE 'use utf8; my $c = q(Français); say $c; say e +ncode("utf-8", $c)'` [download] It encodes the string to Latin-1. Or EBCDIC. Case closed.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^9: Default encoding rules leave me puzzled... by Jim (Curate) on Jun 22, 2014 at 19:08 UTC
Huh? $ chcp Active code page: 437 $ perl -MEncode=encode -wE 'use utf8; my $c = q(Français); say $c; say encode("utf-8", $c)' Wide character in say at -e line 1. Franτais Fran∩┐╜ais $	[reply]