Re: the utf8 flag

Dr.Ruud skribis 2007-03-31 14:00 (+0200):
> > unicode explicitly is a superset of latin1.
> But there are defined differences:
> $ perl -wle '(chr().chr(255)) =~ /^s/ and $n++  and
print for 0..255;
> $ perl -wle '(chr().chr(256)) =~ /^s/ and $n++  and
print for 0..255;

That's a bug; see also the subthread "fixing the regex
engine wrt
unicode" for an overview of why it cannot be fixed, and
how it could be

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