I decided to join the 21st century

Technically, you decided to finally join the late 20th century. The basics of Unicode were started in 1989, UTF-8 was first presented to the public at the USENIX conference in 1993. (Sorry, couldn't resist)

So, welcome to the international club of pain and suffering uh i meant to write "supporters of Umlauts, Linear A(¹), hidden control characters that will confuse your text renderer(²), black Santas(³). And multiple ways of encoding the same character with the same text length but different byte length that are still the same character but need special (and complicated) functions to string-compare them(4). And apparently broken superscripts on PerlMonks(5)"

(¹) Linear A

(²) Unicode control characters

(³) Emoji modifiers and examples in color

(4) Unicode equivalence, also incorrect length of strings with diphthongs

(5) PerlMonks only seems to display superscripts ¹²³ correctly (only tried in post preview), but should really support all the numbers and signs. Unicode Block “Superscripts and Subscripts”

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In reply to Re: My UTF-8 text isn't surviving I/O as expected by cavac
in thread My UTF-8 text isn't surviving I/O as expected by ibm1620

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