Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.10.1-13
Severity: important
The perlunicode(1) man page gives bad information, which can lead to
write unsafe code. It says:
Input and Output Layers
Perl knows when a filehandle uses Perl's internal Unicode
encodings (UTF-8, or UTF-EBCDIC if in EBCDIC) if the filehandle
is opened with the ":utf8" layer. Other encodings can be
converted to Perl's encoding on input or from Perl's encoding
on output by use of the ":encoding(...)" layer. See open.
It should warn against the usage of the ":utf8" layer, and
"Other encodings" is misleading as one may think that the
UTF-8 encoding is not concerned by the ":encoding(...)" layer,
while one should use ":encoding(UTF-8)" instead of ":utf8".
See:
http://perlgeek.de/en/article/encodings-and-unicode
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=644786
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