On 2 Jul 2013, at 10:38, Craig Chant <cr...@homeloanpartnership.com> wrote: > > I thought all strings in perl were Unicode ? or at least that's what the > Unicode::Encoding plugin is for isnt' it?
No. Decoded strings in Perl are in a character representation which is magic and you don't need to know about. Assuming that representation is Unicode will bite you on the backside when you most want it not to. _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
