Just some thoughts... I ran your script as is and I got the following results:

C

R S ? Z
R S T U V W X Y Z

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The results tell me that the encoding is the special locale C which maps to ASCII, the ? mark tells you that something is missing. C maps to ASCII, but the Š does not. I would guess that you have to declare the locale, so I tried this:


#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
no warnings 'utf8';
use utf8;
use POSIX;
use locale;

print setlocale(LC_CTYPE(), 'et_EE.UTF-8'), "\n\n";

my(@real) = ('R', 'S', 'Š', 'Z');
my(@fake) = ('R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z');

print "@real\n", "@fake\n";

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And the results:

et_EE.UTF-8

R S Š Z
R S T U V W X Y Z

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I wasn't comfortable with the range operator, so I deleted that. Personally, I think that it might be a platform-specific problem.

In reply to Re: any use of 'use locale'? by Khen1950fx
in thread any use of 'use locale'? by wanradt

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