in reply to Re^3: Simplest Possible Way To Disable Unicode
in thread Simplest Possible Way To Disable Unicode
So, you'd have us throw away all the useful warnings
I'm not sure what other warnings pack 'C' or pack in general can emit. You could submit a patch so that pack overflow warnings are a subclass of pack warnings.
Oh sure. "Wide character" says 'overflow', like super-injunction says right to privacy for all.
It doesn't say "Wide character".
>perl -we"$_ = pack 'C*', 257" Character in 'C' format wrapped in pack at -e line 1.
It's saying how it handled an overflow.
Really? Can you guess where this direct quote " A Unicode character number." comes from?
That's easy, but moot. I've already pointed out the documentation is wrong. There is no such thing as Unicode number 0x20000, yet
>perl -wE"say sprintf '%X', unpack 'U', pack 'U', 0x200000" 200000
The docs sometimes assign Unicode semantics to operations where no such semantics exist. "A Unicode character number." should simply be "A character number." In Perl, a character is a number in 0 to UVMAX.
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Re^5: Simplest Possible Way To Disable Unicode
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 24, 2011 at 07:18 UTC | |
by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 24, 2011 at 07:49 UTC | |
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 24, 2011 at 08:39 UTC | |
by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 24, 2011 at 16:00 UTC | |
by tchrist (Pilgrim) on May 24, 2011 at 18:59 UTC | |
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 24, 2011 at 19:27 UTC |