That doesn't sound right

I beg to differ. They are not the same. Hashes should consider them different just like eq does. In perlguts speak, the UTF8 flag is preserved and observed (unlike the taint flag). That flag is a very important piece of information, and it should not be ignored.

Strings of chars and strings of encoded chars (no matter what the encoding) are not the same thing. 

use Test::Simple tests => 6;

use strict;
use warnings;

#use Devel::Peek qw( Dump );
use Encode      qw( encode _utf8_on _utf8_off);

{
   ok(1);

   my $chars_suites = "\x{2660}\x{2661}\x{2662}\x{2663}";
   my $utf8_suites  = encode('UTF-8', $chars_suites);
   _utf8_off(my $utf8_suites2 = $chars_suites);
   _utf8_on(my $chars_suites2 = $utf8_suites);

#   # Make sure they're the same, UTF8 flag non-withstanding.
#   print("\n");
#   print("chars_suites:\n"); Dump($chars_suites);
#   print("\n");
#   print("chars_suites2\n"); Dump($chars_suites2);
#   print("\n");
#   print("utf8_suites:\n");  Dump($utf8_suites);
#   print("\n");
#   print("utf8_suites2\n");  Dump($utf8_suites2);
#   print("\n");

   ok($chars_suites  eq $chars_suites2);
   ok($utf8_suites   eq $utf8_suites  );
   ok($chars_suites  ne $utf8_suites  );
   ok($chars_suites2 ne $utf8_suites2 );

   my %hash;
   $hash{$chars_suites } .= 'a';
   $hash{$chars_suites2} .= 'b';
   $hash{$utf8_suites  } .= 'c';
   $hash{$utf8_suites2 } .= 'd';

   ok($hash{$chars_suites} eq 'ab'
   && $hash{$utf8_suites } eq 'cd');
}

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In reply to Re^3: Hash key string restrictions? by ikegami
in thread Hash key string restrictions? by Ojosh!ro

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