Now Perl-5.8.1-to-be has been changed to
(1) not to do any implicit UTF-8-ification of any filehandles unless
explicitly asked to do so (either by the -C command line switch
or by setting the env var PERL_UTF8_LOCALE to a true value, the switch
wins if both are present) (and if the locale settings do not indicate
a UTF-8 locale, both are silent no-ops)
(2) illegal UTF-8 causing a -w(arning) immediately when read in e.g. by <>
(an immediate croak is a possibility, but a warning is how it now works,
and a croak would be, err, even more non-traditional for UNIX...)
Note that the above do not change the fact that if a *programmer* wants
their code to be UTF-8 aware, they need to think about the evil binmode().
--
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this
special
biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
