Op een regenachtige winterdag (Wednesday 22 January 2003 21:46), schreef
Rafael Garcia-Suarez:
> The UTF8 patch
> Jarkko Hietaniemi solved the problems pertaining UTF8 locales that I
> summarized last week (see bug #19743). If I understand correctly :
>
> The newest version of Encode (1.84, released by Dan Kogai last week) now
> reports malformed data read from an UTF8 filehandle.
>
> Moreover, the -C command-line switch is now required to enable
> UTF8-ification of I/O. It no longer occurs automatically (and silently)
> when perl is run under an UTF8 locale. Another way to achieve this is to
> set the environment variable PERL_UTF8_LOCALE. (Running smoke tests with
> this variable set and with an UTF8 locale would be a good idea.)
In fact, such a good idea, that I implemented it in the Test::Smoke suite and
put a development snapshot (Test-Smoke-1.16_15) on CPAN for people to play
with until 1.17 comes out.
http://search.cpan.org/author/ABELTJE/Test-Smoke-1.16_15/
Good luck,
Abe
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-- Jarkko Hietaniemi on p5p @ 2002-05-27
