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Dear gtk-perl members, I encountered a strange problem about the encoding of perl binding output. Things start with a bug in the screenshot program (shutter). Links: Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/847051 Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shutter/+bug/1556021 Upstream: https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter/+bug/1618310 The original messy output, as indicated in screenshot in the Ubuntu bug, looks like treating a latin-1-encoded binary data as UTF-8-encoded data and showing them anyway. The hacky patch proposed (by me) is using Encode::_utf8_on() to turn on the internal flag for string and mark it as UTF-8. Note that I am not a perl programmer and I don't know if it is 100% correct, but it works for everyone I know about. However, I have no idea if the output would depend on the locale or the default encoding of the system. So what is the encoding of the output of $widget->get_name? Does it depend on system locale? Is it a bug that the output is *not* marked as utf8 string by default? The answer would help us confirm that the patch for shutter is correct or not. Thank you for your time! Sincerely, Boyuan Yang
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