Hi, Roie Marianer wrote: >> # This is what *should* happen: >> my $x = chr(0xE2)~chr(0x82)~chr(0xAC); >> say $x.bytes; # 3 >> say $x.chars; # 1 >> >> # This is what currently happens: >> my $x = chr(0xE2)~chr(0x82)~chr(0xAC); >> say $x.bytes; # 6 >> say $x.chars; # 3 > > That doesn't make sense. If you read the first statement "my $x=..." > out loud, you'll see it says "character 0xE2, then character 0x82, > then character 0xAC". Three characters. On the other hand, > > my $x = chr(0x20AC); # Look ma, Unicode! > say $x.bytes; #3 > say $x.chars; #1
ah! That makes perfect sense, thanks for clarifying matters! :) Ok, then it seems we need to have a builtin, such that: new_builtin(0xE2) ~ new_builtin(0x82) ~ new_builtin(0xAC) eq "\xE2\x82\xAC" --Ingo -- Linux, the choice of a GNU | "The future is here. It's just not widely generation on a dual AMD | distributed yet." -- William Gibson Athlon! |
