Joshua Chamas wrote:
Do you know why it is that "use utf8" is needed at the top of each script?
No, I'm not sure. At this point, I just know that there are pages where, if I remove the pragma, the UTF-8 characters get munged. I haven't tried to localize the Perl constructs in which this happens.
What precisely were the problems that you were running into without this setting?
The most common symptom was what looked like double UTF-8 encodings. That is, Unicode characters that should have encoded as 2 bytes in UTF-8 were showing up as 4 bytes. I didn't try to reverse the double conversion to make sure this is what was happening, but I can't think of a more likely explanation for the symptom.
The opportunity here is that we could automatically add something like this to the top of each page.
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