comment on

Note that if you modify line 8 to

my $ascii_but_utf = '123';
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the output changes to

SV = PV(0x22ae1d0) at 0x2300b20
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (PADMY,POK,pPOK)
  PV = 0x22d21f0 "123\321\204\321\204\321\204\321\204"\0
  CUR = 11
  LEN = 16
ALL OK
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This is because that UTF is on is just a historical artifact of your initialization.

If we take a look at the two output files generated by these two cases, you'll note that both contain 11 bytes, despite the fact that the byte dump of the UTF-upgraded case should have output 19 bytes. This is because the internal representation of high-bit, 1-byte characters under Perl's implementation of UTF is multi-byte even though they cleanly map to 1-byte characters on output. You wouldn't expect these 1-byte characters to output a wide-character warning any more that you'd expect an ASCII character to.

Second case does look like UTF-8 character string,

You're thinking of that wrong; it could be a UTF character string, or a UTF-8 byte string. When dealing with non-ASCII characters in Perl, rare is the case when you should actually be thinking about Perl's internal representation.

#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

In reply to Re^3: Unicode strings internals by kennethk
in thread [SOLVED] Unicode strings internals by vsespb

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