Re^3: Special character not being captured

> when I go to get the first character (...) I suddenly need to specify the encoding

UTF-8 is a multi-byte encoding. It means that some characters, Ć being one of them, are encoded by more than one byte (in this case, two bytes: 0xC3 0x86). If a string starts with such a character, but Perl doesn't know the encoding, it assumes Latin-1, which is a single byte encoding. First character then corresponds to the first byte only, which is 0xC3. It doesn't have any meaning in UTF-8, so it's transformed into �, the replacement character.

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

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Re^4: Special character not being captured by Lady_Aleena (Priest) on Jun 23, 2019 at 17:47 UTC
One last thing, I've been trying to figure out how to add utf8 to `first_alpha`, which I posted earlier. I am not having any success with it. So, how should I add it to that subroutine? *No matter how hysterical I get, my problems are not time sensitive. So, relax, have a cookie, and a very nice day!* Lady Aleena	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Special character not being captured by choroba (Cardinal) on Jun 24, 2019 at 07:19 UTC
It doesn't belong there. You should always decode the input, as soon as possible; and similarly encode the output immediately before sending it out. `first_alpha` should receive an already decoded string. `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l] [select]