Strings Are No Longer Collection of Bytes

    

    # Strings can be stored internally as UTF8.
    # Each character can be more than a byte.
    my $demo = v1024.32.64;
    printf "The string is %d characters long\n", length($demo);
    foreach my $index ( 0 .. length($demo)-1 ) {
      my $char = substr( $demo, $index, 1 );
      print "Glyph: $char, ordinal: ", unpack("U*", $char), "\n";
    }

  

The string is 3 characters long Glyph: �Ѐ, ordinal: 1024 Glyph: , ordinal: 32 Glyph: @, ordinal: 64