On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:12:06AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: perl-doc
> Version: 5.8.8-7
> Severity: wishlist
> X-debbugs-cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> File: /usr/share/man/man3/Data::Dumper.3perl.gz
>
> We see there on the man page
> Pure Perl version of "Data::Dumper" escapes UTF-8 strings
> correctly only in Perl 5.8.0 and later.
> But what if we don't wish to see
> $VAR3 = "\x{8ecd}\x{529f}";
> $VAR4 = {
> "*\x{8ecd}\x{529f}\x{8def}97\x{865f}\x{5c0d}\x{9762}" => 2,
> etc. but instead the actual UTF-8 chars.
>
> Say there on the man page what to do.
> I had to do
> $ perl file|ascii2uni -C
> as a workaround.
>
Unfortunately, ascii2uni is not a part of Perl, and is probably not
cross-platform, so is not a usable example. Perhaps you'd like to propose
an example using Perl code, and a patch for the documentation?
Steve Peters
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