I second that. One needs to be able to say: "this
scalar contains utf8 already - treat it like that".
And for readability I'd prefer some "bless ($s, utf8)"
like thing to a clever pack/unpack scheme. My $0.02
Stefan
se(_at_)acm(_dot_)org
-----Original Message-----
From: Bart Schuller [mailto:schuller(_at_)lunatech(_dot_)com]
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 11:02 AM
To: perl-unicode(_at_)perl(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: converting between utf8 and bytes
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 10:34:17AM +0900,
simon(_dot_)p(_dot_)cozens(_at_)jp(_dot_)pwcglobal(_dot_)com wrote:
I have an XS module which I've been meaning to put onto CPAN which
just flicks on the SvUTF bit on a variable. That'll do what you want
but it's a sick and disgusting hack.
I don't think it's sick, it's exactly what you need if you are reading a
binary protocol that uses utf8 for strings. The filehandle as a whole
needs to be bytary, but depending on the data you might decide that a
substring needs to be tagged as utf8.
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