On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 10:07:45 +0200, Jörn Reder wrote:
1) If I insert 'use utf8;' in the first line, the error does NOT go away. 2) If I insert 'use utf8;' in the first line and comment out the Gtk2::Label->new, the error DOES go away. 3) If I insert 'use utf8;' and actualy use a non-ascii in $string, the problem DOES go away -- the label is still there!The main difference for case 3) is that $string gets the utf8 flag set at compile time, because you assigned a literal utf8 value to $string. For the cases 1) and 2) 'use utf8' makes no difference, because your source code doesn't contain any utf8 characters, but plain ASCII - so $string has no utf8 flag set. 'use utf8;' tells the Perl compiler that your source code is written in utf8 encoding. It doesn't change Perl's runtime behaviour, in particular it's not needed to enable Unicode handling. [...[ What are we doing here? We'r doing a substition regex on the global $_, but the right side calls a sub which *modifies* $_. Is this expected to work? No, this is really a bug in the script. Perl get's totatly confused about $_ and panics! ;) We learn: don't struggle with globals! Use lexicals! ;)
Ok. So I want one thing. If I encode a script in unicode, I want all
string literals to behave the same and have the utf8 flag set. But some
of them happen not to contain any non-ascii characters. Now, how do I do
this?
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Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb ucw cz>
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