Re: Bug in Encode::encode('MIME-Q', $iso_8859_1_string)

John Delacour wrote:
> At 3:54 pm +0100 23/11/05, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
>
> > this seems to be a bug:
> >
> > b)
> > perl -MHTML::Entities -MEncode -e '$a="abcÄ";
> > print encode("MIME-Q", HTML::Entities::decode($a)), "\n";'
> >
> > Result:
> > =?UTF-8?Q?abc=C4def?=
>
>
> What about this:
>
>      perl -MHTML::Entities -MEncode -e 'use encoding ("iso-8859-1");
>      $a = "abc&Auml"; print encode "MIME-Q", decode_entities $a . $/'
>
>      =?UTF-8?Q?abc=C3=84?=
I don't want to use encoding iso-8859-1... Can't the encode function just
recognize the string charset (UTF-8 or not)? That would be The Right Thing.

-Sven