pack’s C0 and U0

Perl’s unpack can work with character data in two ways. The C template does characters and the U does the UTF-8. That they exist doesn’t mean that you should use them, but they exist and I inadvertently overlooked some of their behavior for Programming Perl. These focus a bit too much on Perl’s internal representation of a string, which we shouldn’t do. Continue reading “pack’s C0 and U0”