pack was badly broken in 5.10 (and silently changes existing behavior, which should almost never be done). The 5.10 documentation for "pack" says the "c" and "C" are "eight bit" and "octet" but they no longer (always) are. So the documentation is wrong (but the documented behavior is preferrable, especially since it has always worked that way). unpack "H*", pack "U", 0x1234 results under 5.10 are mostly nonsensical, not "fixed".

Pretending that the encoding of the string should never make a difference is just fooling yourself and leads to confusing magical behaviors that sometimes "do what you mean" but burn you when they don't.

- tye        

In reply to Re^5: Parsing UTF-16LE CSV Records Using Text::CSV* (5.10) by tye
in thread Parsing UTF-16LE CSV Records Using Text::CSV* by Jim

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