Re: mason utf8 issue

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Lukas <[email protected]> wrote:
> we are using Perl 5.10, Mason 1.42 and having an issues with UTF-8 encoded
> strings. Recently we are accepting new customers from different countries
> that have different letters in the database and standart encoding cannot
> support this. From what Ive read, even if i encode string in one mason
> component to UTF8 as soon as this string is passed to another component it
> is again treated Lating1 event that the string was previously converted to
> UTF8.

I haven't seen this behavior and it would be really odd, Mason would
have to be explicitly taking a scalar that has the UTF-8 flag and
removing it before passing it on. I haven't seen it do any such thing.

Do you have some narrowed-down testcase that shows this issue.

> this is causing huge problems for us. Is there a way how to enforce
> UTF8 for every module? Unfortunately we cannot upgrade to higher
> versions of perl or mason as our app would not work in this
> environment.

Wait this is related to the UTF-8 semantics changing in later perl or
Mason versions? Seems to me you're 99% of the way to narrowing down
your problem then, just bisect perl and/or Mason to see when the
relevant change in behavior was introduced, or as it seems in your
case, broken even further.

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