Re: Overlong UTF-8 (Re: Make Encode.pm support the real UTF-8)

[email protected] (Gisle Aas)
Newsgroups perl.unicode,perl.perl5.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gisle Aas <[email protected]> writes:

> $ perl xxx.pl | perl xxx.pl encoding
> Hi
> utf8 "\xF0" does not map to Unicode at xxx.pl line 10.
> utf8 "\x80" does not map to Unicode at xxx.pl line 10.
> utf8 "\x80" does not map to Unicode at xxx.pl line 10.
> utf8 "\x80" does not map to Unicode at xxx.pl line 10.
> $VAR1 = 'foo\\xF0\\x80\\x80\\x80bar
> ';
> 
> Was this an intentional change?

When using ':encoding(utf8)' all data after a bad byte is simply lost.
This seems like a serious perl-5.8.6 recession to me.
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