perl-unicode

Re: CGI and UTF

2003-01-21 08:30:05
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 11:25:11AM +0000, Peter Haworth wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 18:56:57 +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
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)

Is there a way to specify a "negative" -C to turn off UTF-8 in the face of
PERL_UTF8_LOCALE being set?

Ummmm, no there isn't...  Should we have -C:0 and -C:1 ?

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