Re: Use of encoding/decoding and 3-param open

Paul Bijnens skribis 2007-11-15 14:52 (+0100):
> Can you elaborate more on the subtle difference between:
>   binmode(STDIN, ":utf8");
>   binmode(STDIN, ":encoding(UTF-8)");

http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.9.5/pod/perlunifaq.pod#Cheat?!_Tell_me,_how_can_I_cheat?

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=644786

> For input, both get the correct characters, assuming the input 
> bytestream was indeed correct.

Yes, but if the bytestream is incorrect, you may have a security issue
if you used :utf8 instead of :encoding.
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