no warnings qw( pack );

So, you'd have us throw away all the useful warnings that pack can emit when I do something wrong in order to disable the stupid warning emitted when it does something wrong. Cool-io. Not.

You're getting an overflow warning.

Oh sure. "Wide character" says 'overflow', like super-injunction says right to privacy for all.

It has nothing to do with Unicode.

Really? Can you guess where this direct quote " A Unicode character number." comes from?

I don't give flying fig whether you want to conflate the term 'unicode' with that multiplicitous cock-up of formats that hide behind the moniker 'The Unicode Standard'(*), and can't see that I used the former as a short-hand for 'multi-byte character sets'.

Which should of course be 'The Multicode Standards:Everything including the (7 different) kitchen sinks'

* — Not even "U" has any understanding of Unicode. >perl -wE"say sprintf '%X', unpack 'U', pack 'U', 0x200000" 200000

Wadday'know. If you pack with U and unpack with U you get back what you packed. D'uh. A pointless example of nothing much.

This is the problem.

perl -wE"$s=pack 'U*', 257; say length $s; print for unpack 'C*', $s;"
1
257

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That totally devalues the purpose of having two different template characters.

That should not happen. And I shouldn't have to state that I don't want it to happen:

>perl -Mbytes -wE"$s=pack 'U*', 257; say length $s; say for unpack 'C*
+', $s;"
2
196
129

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It breaks backward compatibility in the very worst way.

The Unicode Standard is a cock-up. And the Perl implementation worse.

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In reply to Re^3: Simplest Possible Way To Disable Unicode by BrowserUk
in thread Simplest Possible Way To Disable Unicode by JapanIsShinto

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