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Krambambuli
Have a look into the results of
<code>
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Devel::Peek;
use Encode;
#use utf8;
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
my $string1 = "123\x{444}\x{444}\x{444}\x{444}";
_display ($string1, 'STRING1' );
my $utfstring = "123 \x{439}\x{439}\x{439}\x{439}";
_display ($utfstring, 'UTF_STRING' );
my ($ascii_but_utf, undef) = split ' ', $utfstring;
_display ($ascii_but_utf, 'ASCII_BUT_UTF' );
#my $bytestring = encode ("UTF-8", "\x{444}\x{444}\x{444}\x{444}");
my $bytestring = "\x{444}\x{444}\x{444}\x{444}";
_display ($bytestring, 'BYTESTRING' );
my $mixedstring = "$ascii_but_utf$bytestring"; # simulate The Unicode Bug here
_display ($mixedstring, 'MIXEDSTRING' );
print "MIXEDSTRING and STRING1 are supposed to be identical...\n";
exit;
###############
sub _display {
my ($string, $name) = @_;
print "$name:\n";
Dump $string;
my $l1 = length($string);
my $l2 = bytes::length($string);
if ($l1 != $l2) {
print "LENGTHs DIFFERS: length: $l1, bytes: $l2\n"
}
print "UTF IS ON\n" if utf8::is_utf8($string);
print "\n";
}
</code>
and then check the difference you see for BYTESTRING when running<br><br>
my $bytestring = encode ("UTF-8", "\x{444}\x{444}\x{444}\x{444}"); <br><br>
versus <br><br>
my $bytestring = "\x{444}\x{444}\x{444}\x{444}";<br><br>
The [mod://Encode] documentation has an Caveat about it:<br><br>
CAVEAT: When you run "$octets = encode("utf8", $string)", then $octets might not be equal to $string. Though<br>
both contain the same data, the UTF8 flag for $octets is always off. When you encode anything, the UTF8 flag<br>
on the result is always off, even when it contains a completely valid utf8 string. See "The UTF8 flag" below.<br><br>
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