Hello all. I'm maintaining a Perl app which relies on a possibly
incorrect behavior in Encode::decode_utf8 - references are expected to
pass through unmangled. This worked fine until a recent upgrade.
Observe Encode v2.08 with Perl v5.6.1:
$ perl -MEncode -MData::Dumper -e \
'my $ref = Encode::decode_utf8({ foo => 1}); print Dumper($ref);'
$VAR1 = {
'foo' => 1
};
However, Encode v2.18 with Perl v5.6.1 is not so forgiving:
$ perl -MEncode -MData::Dumper -e \
'my $ref = Encode::decode_utf8({ foo => 1}); print Dumper($ref);'
$VAR1 = 'HASH(0x9932180)';
So, is this a bug in Encode or a bug in my app? I'm leaning towards
the latter but I thought I'd check with you before I started trying
to fix it (no tests, argh!). Aside from "don't do that", can you
suggest a fix?
Thanks,
-sam