Thanks for bothering. My questions were not related to the surrogate characters, but more general (at least I think so).

Indeed, I already had read all the documents you mentioned, but obviously, that has been too long ago.

So, I am glad about your answer for question 1, but I still have problems with question 2. What is that SUBCHAR? I tried to do something like

perl -e 'use warnings; use Encode; print SUBCHAR;'

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but that did not work. I got warnings in every combination I could think of, e.g.

Encode::SUBCHAR
$SUBCHAR

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and so on.

Could somebody please explain what that SUBCHAR actually is by default, how to print its current value and perhaps how to change it?

Thank you very much,

Nocturnus

In reply to Re^2: Question about Encode module and CHECK parameter by Nocturnus
in thread Question about Encode module and CHECK parameter by Nocturnus

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