hello monks, I found some nodes on multibyte regexes, but none on printing. I have the following regex, that describes the Shift-JIS encoding (from http://www.perl.org/tpc/1998/User_Applications/Perl%20and%20Multiple-byte%20Char/perl2-lunde-paper.pdf) 
$sjis= q{ # Shift-JIS encoding
  <[0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F]>                                  
+      # CDPS Unicode tag
  | &\#x[0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F][0-9A-F];                             
+       # SGML Unicode tag
  | [\x00-\x7F]                                                       
+             # ASCII
  | [\x81-\x9F\xE0-\xFC][\x40-\x7E\x80-\xFC]                          
+      # Two-byte range
  | [\xA0-\xDF]                                                       
+             # Half-width katakana
};

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My goal is to create a random string from this (or any other) regex. I got through the parsing part but am now stuck with the correct byte sequences. In e.g. \x83\xE3 and \x44\x81 are 2 correct 2-byte characters (from rule [\x81-\x9F\xE0-\xFC][\x40-\x7E\x80-\xFC]). The problem is: how do I print them - i can print byte by byte, but that does not give the correct results. To sum up: i have the correct byte sequence, i know which bytes "go together", i just don't know how to print the multibyte chars. Appreciate your aid, Deda.

In reply to printing multibyte chars by Deda

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