Re: utf8 horror stories

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Autrijus Tang wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 12:52:19PM -0600, John Williams wrote:
> > Perl desperately needs a "default-to-utf8" mode.
>
> It's called "use encoding 'utf8';".  It's also subtly enabling
> lots of other knobs.  See encoding::warnings on CPAN for details.

Have you actually tried it?
That only sets your source file and STDIN/STDOUT to utf8.

"use open ':utf8'" will fix your other files, but only lexically, so other
modules you use will still give you non-utf8 strings.

LWP::UserAgent doesn't pay attention to the charset header.

libapreq2 doesn't mark the strings it gives you as utf-8.

And let's not even get started on DBI...

~ John Williams

P.S.  I should give kudos to Storable for doing the right thing, though.



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