Re^2: inconsistency in whitespace handling

True. That's because unicode changes the definition of whitespace. Until you go Unicode, perl defines whitespace as:

       \s      A whitespace character      [ \t\n\r\f]
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But once you're in Unicode, it honors the encoding's WhiteSpace flag. (Which is set, in this case.)

Updated: The same applies to thundergnat's discovery.

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