> Hm, what platform and perl version....? 5.8.8 and 5.12.2 on RHEL, and 5.10.0 on OS X 10.6.
> c:\>perl -Mutf8 -wE > "say $^V,$^O;$_='123456789';s§3(456)7§$1§;say" > Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa7, > with no preceding start byte) at -e line 1. Not the same error as I got. This one looks to me like submitting 256-bit ASCII, where the section sign is A7, after telling the host you would be submitting UTF-8, where the section sign is C2A7. (Sorry if my terminology is wrong.) ˉ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/