Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Dan Kogai wrote: >> This makes perl-5.8.6 happy but the problem is that I have made >> Encode::utf8 so that it accepts fallback values like Encode::XS (upon >> the request by Bjoern Hoehrmann via RT). Encode::utf8 used to return >> immediately at partial character but now Encode:RETURN_ON_ERR is >> required, meaning those who installed Encode-2.07 on older perl are in >> trouble w/ PerlIO. So I am looking for a solution which does that >> without tweaking PerlIO::encoding. > >Welcome to backward compatibility hell :) > >> I just want Encode::utf8->decode() to make sure Encode:RETURN_ON_ERR is >> on when the callar is PerlIO::encoding... > >Or, one could backport PerlIO::encoding (with your patch) to CPAN and >require this latest version for Encode 2.08.
You could. But I designed the two together and partial characters were not errors but distingushed in a way which is part of Encode::XS behaviour.
