Re^2: Escaping Wide Characters

That code (unpack 'W' specifically) only works in 5.10.

The 5.8 docs had unpack("U*", ...) in the nice_string() snippet (instead of unpack("W*", ...) ) — which works fine, AFAICT.

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Re^3: Escaping Wide Characters by Anonymous Monk on Mar 18, 2008 at 14:31 UTC
I have some weird problems with these mappings: On an English Windows XP, the unpack("U"...) works fine, even with my Perl 5.6.1. But neither the unpack("U"...) nor the "map /./gs,..." approach works if I run exactly the same scripts on an English Windows 2003 Server platform, or on a Japanese Windows XP platform. Do you know of any general problems with perl's Unicode handling on these platforms, and do you have an idea how I could solve that?	[reply]
Re^4: Escaping Wide Characters by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 19, 2008 at 05:48 UTC
Sounds like you're starting with an undecoded string? The function is not platform dependent.	[reply]