Re: UTF-8 characters in variable names: some characters are not allowed

Perl identifiers must consist of word characters (alphanumerics and underscore). "a" and "a acute" are word characters. "dollar sign" and "euro sign" are not.

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Re^2: UTF-8 characters in variable names: some characters are not allowed by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 06, 2009 at 18:24 UTC
That's correct - I just wish the error message was clearer. It says "Malformed UTF-8 character" even though the file is valid UTF-8. I'll open search the perl RT, and open a ticket if none is open already. Update: I didn't find an open ticket for it, so I opened a new one. Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.	[reply]
Re^3: UTF-8 characters in variable names: some characters are not allowed by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 06, 2009 at 18:32 UTC
I didn't clue into that. Yeah, that's not an appropriate error message.	[reply]