Hello Monks,

I believe I’ve found a bug in chr,

perl -v (v5.18.2) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level (with 2 registered patches

Running in macOS 10.13.3

I’m working with external geodesic data in UTF-8, so my code includes, such as: 
  use utf8;   # Required if using Unicode strings.
  ...
  open(FH, "<:encoding(UTF-8)", "$fileName") ||
    die "Can't open $fileName: $!\n";

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When I inspect some of my variables, either in debugger or with
simple print expressions I get: 
  print "Three required utf8 chars:\n \x{B0}\n \x{2032}\n \x{2033}\n";
  print chr(0xB0), "\n";

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The chr statement returns ‘?’ while the print statement returns the Unicode expressions: 
  Three required utf8 chars:
   °
   &#8242;
   &#8243;
  ?

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The print statement is correct, the chr is not. Please advise?

In reply to Potential bug in chr by perlboy_emeritus

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