[MacPerl] bug in MIME::QuotedPrint ?

[Axel Rose <rose@sj.com>]

I think the Perl module MIME::QuotedPrint gives wrong results
under MacPerl. I tested the following with QuotedPrint.pm from
standard installation and from cpan-mac.

#!perl -w

use MIME::QuotedPrint;

$string = "ä";
$estring = encode_qp( $string );
print "encode_qp( $string ) = $estring\n";

__END__

Result is
encode_qp( ä ) = =8A

Running under Linux I get the proper result
encode_qp( ä ) = =E4


Looking into the source code I find
...
$res =~ s/([^ \t\n!-<>-~])/sprintf("=%02X", ord($1))/eg;  # rule #2,#3
$res =~ s/([ \t]+)$/
	join('', map { sprintf("=%02X", ord($_)) }
		split('', $1)
      )/egm;                        # rule #3 (encode whitespace at eol)
...

Not understanding this fully I suspect the ord() function.

Can anybody confirm this?
Any ideas for a workaround?


Regards


Axel
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