On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 03:24:36PM -0400, abigail(_at_)foad(_dot_)org wrote:
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:56:52PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
=head2 Toggling UTF-8-ness
on_utf8(STRING)
[INTERNAL] Turn on the UTF-8 flag in STRING. The data in
STRING is B<not> checked for being well-formed UTF-8. Do not
use unless you B<know> that the STRING is well-formed UTF-8.
Returns nothing.
Returning nothing is a waste. Would it be useful to return the previous
value of the UTF-8 flag? Same for off_utf8.
I actually thought exactly the same thing but that leasds into funny
semantics where a false return values signifies a success, and vice versa.
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