Only the meaning assigned to that value:

Your demo actually shows that there is no change in meaning. It's %d or %u that controls what gets displayed, so %d and %u is what gives the value meaning.

I will grant you that there is no change in value for some purposes. i==j is true, so the value is the same as far as == is concerned. However, i<5 == j<5 is false, so the value isn't different as far as < is concerned.

It's still moot, though, since 8-bit strings are a proper subset of 32/64-bit strings.

I've been pointing out right from the very beginning, that I'm not interested in getting "the encoded version"

Exactly, and SvPVX can return the encoded version. At least without the limitation you added a couple of posts ago.

that can never be safely or logically treated as any form of unicode.

I don't know why you keep bringing up unicode.

In reply to Re^28: Interleaving bytes in a string quickly by ikegami
in thread Interleaving bytes in a string quickly by BrowserUk

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