On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 03:24:36PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:56:52PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> >
> > =head2 Toggling UTF-8-ness
> >
> > on_utf8(STRING)
> >
> > [INTERNAL] Turn on the UTF-8 flag in STRING. The data in
> > STRING is B<not> checked for being well-formed UTF-8. Do not
> > use unless you B<know> that the STRING is well-formed UTF-8.
> > Returns nothing.
>
> Returning nothing is a waste. Would it be useful to return the previous
> value of the UTF-8 flag? Same for off_utf8.
I actually thought exactly the same thing but that leasds into funny
semantics where a false return values signifies a success, and vice versa.
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