Re: Encode, take three

[abigail]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:56:52PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> 
> =head2 Toggling UTF-8-ness
> 
>       on_utf8(STRING)
> 
> [INTERNAL] Turn on the UTF-8 flag in STRING.  The data in
> STRING is B<not> checked for being well-formed UTF-8.  Do not
> use unless you B<know> that the STRING is well-formed UTF-8. 
> Returns nothing.

Returning nothing is a waste. Would it be useful to return the previous
value of the UTF-8 flag? Same for off_utf8.



Abigail