> Are you running with strict and warnings turned on? Because I'm
> getting "Malformed UTF-8 character" messages running this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> my $u = unpack"U0U", "\x8a\x73";
> print "\$u: $u\n";
>
> my $p = pack("U0U", $u);
> print "\$p: $p\n";
>
> And I can get rid of those errors by changing the pack/unpack template
> to "UU" or "U*"... What are you trying to accomplish with "U0U"?
>
> I figured that the malformed character error that you mentioned, doesnt show
> up on z/OS while using 'U0U'. This is even if I run the same with 'use
> strict' and 'use warnings'.
> Also, the U0U indicates that the string of bytes passed to unpack has to be
> strictly in utf-8 unicode.
Try "U0U*", that seems to work better for me.
> Are you running the same on z/OS unix ? I am running this on z/OS v1R4.
No, I'm running RH9... don't have access to a z/OS box.
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