Mark Dootson <mark.doot...@znix.com> writes: > On 30/04/2013 19:19, Johan Vromans wrote: > >> We may assume that the Perl string is in Perl's internal encoding. > > No we may not.
In that case you'll run into all kinds of encoding problems anyway. See e.g. perlunitut. > I kind of like the existing solution which doesn't break existing code > all over the place and simply requires the coder to be specific about > the format of the data they are sending. My main concern is: If I have correctly decoded string data, will it work when passed to wxWdigets. For example: $orig = readline($datafile); $line = decode( 'utf8', $orig ); $w = Wx::StaticText->new( ... ); $w->SetLabel($line); If an explicit utf8::upgrade were required in this case, my feelings tell me something is wrong. -- Johan
