[Purdue-pm] Unicode Within Perl

[David Jacoby]

After the last meeting, Mark, Joe and I talked a little about coding in
Unicode, among other things.

I have just tried some stuff quick. My go-to unicode symbol, u00b0 or °,
the degree symbol, is rejected as a variable-name character. But pi, π,
is accepted for variable names. Which is interesting.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.010 ;
use utf8 ;
use strict ;
use warnings ;
binmode STDOUT , ':utf8' ;

my $π = 'pi' ;
say $π ;



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