Jeff, I've been doing some more work on the utf-8 code in CharEnt.pm, and I believe I have a method for dealing with the malformed sequences without generating warning messages. Along with that, I'm trying to make the code more robust.
I'm doing some testing, but there are some inconsistencies with different versions of Perl. I currently have Perl versions 5.6.1 and 5.8.0 installed, and noticed that unpack() behaves a little different between the two. I am downloading 5.8.6 to upgrade my 5.8.0 install to see if behavior changes, along with playing with mhonarc code to see if I can get some consistency and a better understanding of Perl's behavior. With unicode-ware Perl (>=5.6), I am trying to convert malformed utf-8 sequences to U+FFFD, the recommended practice for dealing with malformed sequences. Doing this for Perl <5.6 may require more work since utf-8 handling is done with a homegrown method. I may leave that code as-is since I'm not sure it is worth the effort for older non-utf-8-aware versions of Perl. If users are concerned about robust utf-8 support, they should use the latest version of Perl. --ewh P.S. Is it wise to suppress the malformed utf-8 warning messages? If mhonarc can deal with the sequences in a proper manner, I'm not sure if there is any value in printing the warnings. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE MHONARC-DEV
