On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:54, Dirk Koopman <d...@tobit.co.uk> wrote: > Dirk Koopman wrote: >> >> Now, is there a reasonably reliable way of determining what we have, on a >> string by string basis, to at least tell whether we are dealing with utf8 or >> iso-8859 (not caring which variant) so that I can drive Encode appropriately >> to avoid crashes of the above type. Or how do I completely switch off utf8 >> encoding/decoding - everywhere - in an 80,000 line perl app. > > As no-one seems interested in this, or may be no-one else has had these > problems themselves, can anyone suggest a better mailing list to poll?
I was going to suggest Encode::is_utf8 and/or utf8::is_utf8, but I wasn't sure whether it would actually solve your problem so I thought I'd rather stay quiet and hope someone with real-world experience in utf8 woes would pipe up. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <philip.new...@gmail.com>