Does anyone have any experience of a bug I've encountered in 5.8.7 only
whereby occasionally (which is what makes it hard to report) this type
of code:
$fh = IO::File->new("< input.dat") || die;
binmode $fh;
# lots of code, even to different package
$fh->read($dat, $num_bytes);
does utf-8 conversion on $dat !!
It's only occasionally (for example in Font::TTF on about 20% of a
collection of fonts, the reading process scrambles getting the name of a
font, but only on 5.8.7, works fine on all other versions of perl).
TIA,
Martin
