Hi all,

I've stumbled upon a weird problem in perl and I was hoping that some perl-guru here could come with an answer.
The problem is this :
2 years ago I wrote a perl-script which uses the pack function like this :

my $msg = pack("C*",0x80,0x10, 0x29)

now $msg contains 0x80,0x10 and 0x29

I'm running the same code on a redhat enterprise linux ws3 machine with Intel Xeon, only now $msg contains :

0xC2,0x80,0x10 and 0x29

It seems that every byte bigger than 0x7F gets a prefix byte! (0xC2 or 0xC3)
What's happening here?

In reply to perl pack function by fvgestel

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