[AVRO-1462] Non-ASCII decimal characters cause warning from Perl API serializer

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.7
• Component/s: perl
• Release Note: Perl API: Improved handling of invalid int/long during serialization
• Tags: perl
• Assignee: John Karp
• Reporter: John Karp
• Created: 20/Feb/14 20:38
• Updated: 26/Oct/21 16:22
• Resolved: 11/Jun/14 19:41

Description

The serializer is using the \d metacharacter in a regex to check for decimal characters. However, \d also matches non-ASCII decimals such as those from Hindi or Arabic, and that causes this warning:

Argument "\x{661}" isn't numeric in abs at /home/johnkarp/git/avro/lang/perl/blib/lib/Avro/BinaryEncoder.pm line 92.

Test case: