Re: "Unrecognized character" while use utf8 is in effect (perldata/Variable names)

So why isn't it working? Help me out, fellow monks.

Its not a letter, its a symbol ... there are rules to variable names ... http://perldoc.perl.org/perldata.html#Variable-names

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Re^2: "Unrecognized character" while use utf8 is in effect (perldata/Variable names) by AppleFritter (Vicar) on Apr 17, 2015 at 10:20 UTC
Aha! I knew there was something obvious I was missing. (And this should teach me to read the documentation carefully, because when I first glanced over it I'd thought that "Names that do not start with a letter, underscore, digit or a caret (i.e. a control character) are limited to one character" meant I should be good.) Thank you, brother. I have been enlightened.	[reply]
Re^3: "Unrecognized character" while use utf8 is in effect (perldata/Identifier parsing) by Anonymous Monk on Apr 17, 2015 at 10:39 UTC
No prob, here is more explicit :) If you keep reading up to section http://perldoc.perl.org/perldata.html#Identifier-parsing it says `/ (?[ ( \p{Word} & \p{XID_Start} ) + [_] ]) (?[ ( \p{Word} & \p{XID_Continue} ) ]) * /x` [download] and \p{Word} is unicode word chars ... if you lookup Unicode Character 'GLOBE WITH MERIDIANS' (U+1F310) its categorized as symbol not word	[reply] [d/l]