[Purdue-pm] Unicode Within Perl

[Mark Senn]

  Dave Jacoby wrote at 2010-03-19 12:05:58 -0400:
  > 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 ;

Dave,    Does
    http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=793800
answer your question?    -mark