That's not a bug, that's the correct behaviour. :-)

Perl (modules) can switch to switch to utf-8 for any string. Since lsquo and rsquo aren't available in the default charset (latin-1) that's probably the only reasonable thing to do in this case.

The only issue is with output/input. As long as you have your handles open in the mode with the correct character encoding (and that encoding supports the characters you're trying to print) it should all just work. (Though having the latest perl helps a lot - unicode support is still getting better).

As a side note: the latest perls do not open STDOUT/STDIN with utf-8 encoding even if you have a UTF-8 LANG setting.

update: side side note: just to be clear: $ENV{LANG}, "use utf8", binmode() etc strictly speaking say nothing about whether the strings will get the utf-8 flag and you really shouldn't rely on it when they do. The only time you can be sure the utf-8 flag will be on is when you insert characters outside the \x00 - \xff range.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re^6: HTML::TokeParser, get_text scrambling rsquo and lsquo by Joost
in thread HTML::TokeParser, get_text scrambling rsquo and lsquo by tridral

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