Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi(_at_)gmx(_dot_)net> writes:
Hmm, maybe I should ask why you proposed to keep the old behavior of
encode_utf8 in the first place? The change would make more sense to
me if both encode("UTF-8" => ...) and encode_utf8(...) were changed.
I just wanted to keep the the ability still do the cheap encode/decode
where we just end up tweaking the SvUTF8 flag. But we also have
utf8::encode() so I would not really mind if Encode::encode_utf8()
became strict.
The other rationale for this is that I think of "utf8" as the perl
extended version, while "UTF-8" is the standard interpretation. I
could imagine having:
encode("utf8", ...) # perl extended UTF-8
encode_utf8(...) # perl extended UTF-8
encode("UTF-8", ...) # the real thing.
Seems almost sane to me.
Regards,
Gisle
