Sam,
On Jun 18, 2006, at 04:34 , Sam Tregar wrote:
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
};
I can't help wondering how you got Encode to install.
This is what you'd see when you tried perl Makefile.PL when you tried
to do so.
% ~/perl562/bin/perl Makefile.PL
Perl v5.7.3 required--this is only v5.6.2, stopped at Makefile.PL
line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 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
0th of all, Encode requires Perl 5.8 and above (Perl 5.7.3 to be more
exact but it's a developer version). I have no idea what you use
Encode. All I know is I cannot support your case.
Dan the Maintainer Thereof