in reply to Re^2: pack mangles utf output
in thread pack mangles utf output
Yep, perl-5.8.9 under Linux affected
$ perlbrew exec --with perl-5.8.9 perl -MDevel::Peek -e 'use utf8; Dump pack 'A20', "FREIGHT – INTRASTATE"' perl-5.8.9 ========== SV = PV(0x1d14100) at 0x1d11350 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADTMP,POK,pPOK) PV = 0x1d69870 "FREIGHT \342\200\223 INTRASTA"\0 CUR = 20 LEN = 32 $ perlbrew exec --with perl-5.10.0 perl -MDevel::Peek -e 'use utf8; Dump pack 'A20', "FREIGHT – INTRASTATE"' perl-5.10.0 ========== SV = PV(0x1773098) at 0x178e288 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADTMP,POK,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x1798ca0 "FREIGHT \342\200\223 INTRASTATE"\0 UTF8 "FREIGHT \x{2013} INTRASTATE" CUR = 22 LEN = 32
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