Re: Encode, take two

[abigail]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 12:48:27PM -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 NOT checked for well-formed-UTF-8-ness.  Do not
> use frivolously since after turning this on only you know
> that data data is in UTF-8, Perl doesn't.
> Returns nothing.

This confuses me. Why would Perl not think the data is UTF-8 if the UTF-8
flag is on? (You also want to remove a data from 'data data').



Abigail