Re^2: question about Encode::decode('iso-8859-1', ...)

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Re^3: question about Encode::decode('iso-8859-1', ...) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 07, 2009 at 05:42 UTC
Well, it can return both :) It can return zero for any encoding other than US-ASCII and iso-8859-1.	[reply]
Re^4: question about Encode::decode('iso-8859-1', ...) by Anonymous Monk on Mar 07, 2009 at 11:30 UTC
Don't think so. Could you provide an example? For "any encoding other than US-ASCII and iso-8859-1" to matter while decoding, you'd need wide characters, in which case Perl will croak with `"Wide character in subroutine entry at .../Encode.pm line..."` before returning anything. Any non-wide characters will simply be treated as iso-8859-1, because `decode('iso-8859-1',...)` is telling Perl they are.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: question about Encode::decode('iso-8859-1', ...) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 07, 2009 at 12:36 UTC
Here's a test that works with single-byte encodings: `>perl -MEncode -wle"for (0..255) { print if chr ne decode($ARGV[0], ch +r) }" iso-8859-1 >perl -MEncode -wle"for (0x20..0x7E,0x0A..0xFF) { print if chr ne deco +de($ARGV[0], chr) }" iso-8859-2 161 162 163 165 166 169 ...` [download] Here's a UTF-8 example: `>perl -MEncode -wle"$chr=qq{\342\231\240}; print 'diff' if $chr ne dec +ode('UTF-8', $chr)" diff` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: question about Encode::decode('iso-8859-1', ...) by Anonymous Monk on Mar 07, 2009 at 12:58 UTC
Re^7: question about Encode::decode('iso-8859-1', ...) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 07, 2009 at 22:28 UTC


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