A string of characters and it's UTF-8 encoding are even treated as distinct strings, even though strings of characters are stored as UTF-8 internally.
Yowza! That doesn't sound right, at least, not in the Perl 5.8.x world. While on 5.6.x, I guess it's kind of normal that a UTF-8 string and a bytes string are not the same.

So, how is the situation exactly? Does anyone with a clue on the actual implementation, feel like explaining what the deails are really like? Or, if no one comes forward, would anyone with a lot of courage — and time, and with a real hunger for knowledge, and , feel like spitting this out?

In reply to Re^2: Hash key string restrictions? by bart
in thread Hash key string restrictions? by Ojosh!ro

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.