Re^2: Malformed UTF-8 character


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Re^2: Malformed UTF-8 character

by tchrist (Pilgrim)

on Apr 30, 2011 at 16:31 UTC ( [id://902212]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Eliya wrote:

What I find more surprising is that Perl doesn’t complain when — within the scope of use utf8 — the string literal (containing a Latin‑1 encoded char like '°') is declared using single quotes. I’d say the latter is a bug (unless I've overlooked something in the docs... :)

I can confirm it still occurs in 5.14 RC0:

% blead -C0 -le 'print qq(print "\xB0C";)' | blead -Mutf8 -CS -l
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xb0, with no 
+preceding start byte) at - line 1.
C

% blead -C0 -le 'print qq(print \x27\xB0C\x27;)' | blead -Mutf8 -CS -l
#C
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