utf8 oddness

[Paul Makepeace]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Aaron Crane <perl at aaroncrane.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Paul Makepeace writes:
> > rpix:~$ perl -le 'print ord("À")'
> > 195
> >
> > What does 195 refer to? 195 is \xC3 which is another character,
> > according to http://jeppesn.dk/utf-8.html (A~ versus A`)
>

[snip detailed & useful answer]

Thanks a lot, Aaron - this helped a lot!

> For more information on all this, I recommend Juerd's perlunitut
> documentation, as found in 5.8.9 and 5.10.

Yes, good call, thanks again.

Paul (slightly annoyed at himself for not spotting the C3/195 thing.)

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