Re^2: How to make an ascii flower variable

[rgiskard]

in reply to Re: How to make an ascii flower variable
in thread How to make an ascii flower variable

I cut and pasted that code into emacs. Initially things looked good (the flower appeared to be a flower variable etc.). It didn't work when I ran it. How exactly is this working for you?

Code:
use utf8;

$✿ = "works for me?";

Output:

perl fleur.pl
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at fleur.pl line 
+3.
Unrecognized character \x9C; marked by <-- HERE after $\342<-- HERE ne
+ar column\
 2 at fleur.pl line 3.

[anneli]

Hmm, how odd! It ran without complaint or error at work; when I try it at home now, I get the same error as you (which is documented as being correct behaviour!).

I'll have to try again at work tomorrow! ;-)

[moritz]

This is probably related to perl bug #69032. If you read the history of that ticket, you can find that the behavior changed back and forth a bit, and still isn't quite sane.

[anneli]

Turns out I was just plain mistaken (though I did find your findings on this topic while Googling/searching PM); I had used a different character (that I knew the UTF-8 byte sequence for) to test with at work, which happened to actually work, but BLACK FLORETTE does not!

[duelafn]

Of course, we can always put the flower in a vase:

use utf8;
no strict 'refs';
${"✿"} = "works for me?";
say ${"✿"}

[anneli]

Well, I think this solution would please everyone, OP included!