>>>>> On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 09:22:52 +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> A scalar that is going to be passed to some extension, be it
>> Compress::Zlib, Apache::Request or any extension that has no mention
>> of Unicode in the manpage:
>>
>> if ($] > 5.007) {
>> require Encode;
>> utf8::upgrade($self->{CONTENT}); # make sure it is UTF-8 encoded
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Why is that step necessary? encode_utf8() should do that itself on the way ...
You're right, this code slipped in some day and isn't needed at all.
Thanks for the correction!
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andreas