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You have to tell to interpret stdin as UTF-8 (flag -C) - then it works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5734641

The speed difference is bigger than I would have expected - about one order of magnitude in perl with a simple test script : http://ideone.com/Yso23W

You have to tell perl to expect utf8 from stdin (switch -C). $ echo '੧' | perl -C -pe 'print "yes: " if m/\d/' and $ perl -e 'use utf8; print "yes\n" if "੧" =~ m/\d/;' both work :)…

This is not new and probably will not be fixed fast - the situation has been like that (unchanged) since at least 2011.

nope, bing did not work correctly in the past. A few web searches reveal that it has been like that since at least 2011.

Well, it is not really a flub of this year. Or even something specific to Bing (try https://www.nba.com/ or https://www.jetstar.com/ ) Basically Akamai is using the same ssl certif…

Yup. So - the answer to the question "What Does Pi Have To Do With Gravity" is pretty much - nothing. The article also notes that it does not work it you use feet instead of meters…