On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:03 PM, John Delacour <johndelac...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > Nitpick: Why the upper-case charset name? > Uppercase is UTF-8-strict, while lowercase is the lax version that perl uses internally. Unless you are passing data from one perl program to another, and you are using illegal-UTF8-but-legal-UTFX (like if you define your own new characters beyond 10FFFF, which Perl allows but strict UTF-8 shouldn't), there's basically no good reason to use the lax version. > > Interesting to hear that encoding is broken. I came across a problem the > other day wich I couldn't work out at all. But if you include 'qw< :std > :encoding(utf-8) >', is that not also using encoding? > > Sorta, but not quite. use encoding ...; does a couple of different things, and most of them not that well. Foremost it sets the source encoding to some arbitrary value, but also the default encodings for IO streams -- whereas use open ...; only sets the default encodings, with :std setting them for STD(IN|ERR|OUT). The :encoding() part actually refers to a layer provided by a module, not the encoding pragma. Yeah, it's a mess. :)
