More UTF-8 patches from Inaba Hiroto.

- The substr lval was still not okay.
- Now pp_stringify and sv_setsv copies source's UTF8 flag
  even if IN_BYTE.  pp_stringify is called from fold_constants
  at optimization phase and "\x{100}" was made SvUTF8_off under
  use bytes (the bytes pragma is for "byte semantics" and not
  for "do not produce UTF8 data")
- New `qu' operator to generate UTF8 string explicitly.
  Though I agree with the policy "0x00-0xff always produce bytes",
  sometimes want to such a string to be coded in UTF8.
  I can use pack"U0a*" but it requires more typing and has
  runtime overhead.
- Fix pp_regcomp bug uncovered by "0x00-0xff always produce bytes"
  change, the bug appears if a pm has PMdf_UTF8 flag but interpolated
  string is not UTF8_on and has char 0x80-0xff.

TODO: document and test qu.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@8439

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/keywords.pl b/keywords.pl
index 46dd53d70e..06ee8f3efc 100755
--- a/keywords.pl
+++ b/keywords.pl
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ q
 qq
 qr
 quotemeta
+qu
 qw
 qx
 rand