perlboy_emeritus:

The use utf8; directive only tells perl that you're using Unicode in your source code file. It doesn't tell perl to perform any automatic conversions.

The documentation (perldoc -f chr) explicitly states that chr doesn't encode the characters 128..255 (which includes 0xB0) as UTF-8 internally for backward compatibility reasons.

However, if you tell perl to add the utf8 encoding to the output stream, then the 0xb0 will be encoded on output as you want:

$ perl -e 'binmode STDOUT,":utf8"; print chr(0xb0),"\n"'
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Update: I'm not really all that comfortable with Unicode stuff, so reaching for Devel::Peek, I fabricobbled this little thing together:

$ cat pm1208450.pl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Devel::Peek;

my $a = chr(0xb0);
my $b = chr(0x2032);

Dump($a);
Dump($b);

# Combining a byte string and a unicode string converts to unicode
my $c = $a . $b;
Dump($c);

$ perl pm1208450.pl
SV = PV(0x60002c270) at 0x600079168
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,pPOK)
  PV = 0x600069e70 "\260"\0
  CUR = 1
  LEN = 10
SV = PV(0x60002c310) at 0x600079048
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x60008f670 "\342\200\262"\0 [UTF8 "\x{2032}"]
  CUR = 3
  LEN = 10
SV = PV(0x60002c340) at 0x6000ed1c8
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x600093a10 "\302\260\342\200\262"\0 [UTF8 "\x{b0}\x{2032}"]
  CUR = 5
  LEN = 10

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This shows that if you happen to join a byte-oriented string with a unicode string in perl, the result will be a unicode string.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re: Potential bug in chr by roboticus
in thread Potential bug in chr by perlboy_emeritus

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