Note that those characters aren't in Latin-1 but are in Windows-1252 so, when using an 8-bit-character encoding, you might see those characters correctly in any number of places (including many things not at all related to MicroSoft and things that you'd expect to be strongly compliant to standards and claiming to be using Latin-1) and yet still find plenty of things that don't agree that you have those characters correctly encoded.

Since Perl source code is still most often in an 8-bit-character encoding (not UTF-8), putting such characters directly into your code certainly has a chance of not always working. You might be better off hard-coding both the Windows-1252 code points and the UTF-8 code points for such characters so that you'll catch them either way.

- tye        

In reply to Re: “ and ” (and friends) in sourcecode (Windows-1252) by tye
in thread “ and ” (and friends) in sourcecode by skazat

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