On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:00:38AM +0200, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing a script using XML::Simple go berserk (eats CPU + Memory) when
> feeding it XML with illegal UTF-8.
>
> The perl debugger is telling me it's jumping around in Encode.pm
> between line 187 ("sub decode_utf8") and line 246 ("*decode = sub {...").
>
> It's doing something like:
> my $str = Encode::decode_utf8($octets);
> and then
> return undef unless utf8::decode($str);
> (2 functions calling each other).
>
> Is this a known bug in Encode.pm? Has it been fixed?
Maybe and maybe. Could you show the illegal UTF-8?
> My Encode.pm is Version 1.75. It's part of the perl debian package
> 5.8.0-19 (debian unstable).
> I wish Encode.pm would handle invalid UTF-8 in a graceful manner...
>
> Cheers,
> -Sven
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