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
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 may be
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 michael.lud...@xing.com [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
