Am 04.05.2010 um 11:09 schrieb Gisle Aas:
> I regret that I let \C sneak into the URI module. Now we have an interface
> that depends on the internal UTF-8 flag of the stings passed in.
Does it? How so? If it's a byte string, well, it's a byte string, and \C
doesn't change that. If, on the oth
Am 04.05.2010 um 11:09 schrieb Gisle Aas:
> I regret that I let \C sneak into the URI module.
I might have understood why one might think that \C is not a good idea to use
in that method, and maybe not in general.
The fact that character strings in Perl are encoded in UTF-8 is an
implementati
Am 04.05.2010 um 13:06 schrieb Michael Ludwig:
> Is it this (theoretically fragile) implicitness in handling character strings
> that makes \C a bad idea?
>
> But probably not as bad an idea as relying on the default platform encoding
> in Java ("default charset" in Java API doc lingo), which m
* Michael Ludwig [2010-05-04 13:10]:
> Is it this (theoretically fragile) implicitness in handling
> character strings that makes \C a bad idea?
Yes. It will do different things with semantically identical
strings whose only difference is whether the UTF8 flag is set,
ie. it suffers the same prob
Am 04.05.2010 um 13:24 schrieb Aristotle Pagaltzis:
> * Michael Ludwig [2010-05-04 13:10]:
>> Is it this (theoretically fragile) implicitness in handling
>> character strings that makes \C a bad idea?
>
> Yes. It will do different things with semantically identical
> strings whose only differenc
I regret that I let \C sneak into the URI module. Now we have an interface
that depends on the internal UTF-8 flag of the stings passed in. This makes it
very hard to explain, makes it not do what you want when different type of
strings are combined and makes it hard to fix in ways that don't
* Michael Ludwig [2010-05-04 14:55]:
> But wait a second: While URIs are meant to be made of
> characters, they're also meant to go over the wire, and there
> are no characters on the wire, only bytes. There is no standard
> encoding defined for the wire, although UTF-8 has come to be
> seen as th
