Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Klaus Ethgen writes:

>> No, it is not. 00a3 is just not a utf-8 character, it is unicode. To
>> get a correct utf-8 character you need to print x{c2a3} and then
>> isutf8 is happy.

> When LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8, programs which attempt to print unicode
> characters to stdout should use UTF-8. That's what LC_TYPE means.

Perl is specifically documented to not do this for backward compatibility
reasons. In Perl, which is the one I know best, you are required to
decode input and encode output if you want to have UTF-8 handling.

windlord:~> env LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 perl -e 'print "x{00a3}
"'
<glyph for mangled Unicode character>
windlord:~> env LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 perl -MEncode -e 'print encode("utf-8", "x{00a3}
")'
<proper Unicode pound sign>

See perlunicode(1). There are a variety of reasons for this that turn out
to be fairly good ones if you don't want to badly break a bunch of
existing Perl scripts that were dealing with, for example, binary data.

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On 2011-02-14 13:11:04 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Perl is specifically documented to not do this for backward compatibility
> reasons. In Perl, which is the one I know best, you are required to
> decode input and encode output if you want to have UTF-8 handling.

Or better, use the -C option.

perl -C -e 'print "x{00a3}
"'

will "work" under both UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1. Or you can force UTF-8 with:

perl -CSD -e 'print "x{00a3}
"'

You can also do that globally with the PERL_UNICODE environment variable.

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