-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-11312 2011-08-23 04:05:00 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : perl-Test-Mojibake Product : Fedora 15 Version : 0.3 Release : 2.fc15 URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Mojibake/ Summary : Check your source for encoding misbehavior Description : Many modern text editors automatically save files using UTF-8 codification. However, the perl interpreter does not expect it by default. Whilst this does not represent a big deal on (most) backend-oriented programs, Web framework (Catalyst, Mojolicious) based applications will suffer so-called Mojibake (literally: "unintelligible sequence of characters"). Even worse: if an editor saves BOM (Byte Order Mark, U+FEFF character in Unicode) at the start of a script with the executable bit set (on Unix systems), it won't execute at all, due to shebang corruption. Avoiding codification problems is quite simple: * Always use utf8/use common::sense when saving source as UTF-8 * Always specify =encoding utf8 when saving POD as UTF-8 * Do neither of above when saving as ISO-8859-1 * Never save BOM (not that it's wrong; just avoid it as you'll barely notice its presence when in trouble) However, if you find yourself upgrading old code to use UTF-8 or trying to standardize a big project with many developers, each one using a different platform/editor, reviewing all files manually can be quite painful, especially in cases where some files have multiple encodings (note: it all started when I realized that gedit and derivatives are unable to open files with character conversion tables). Enter the Test::Mojibake ;) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This is the first F-14/F-15 release of perl-Test-Mojibake. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #729972 - Review Request: perl-Test-Mojibake - Check your source for encoding misbehavior https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729972 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update perl-Test-Mojibake' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
