Dan Kogai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Oct 25, 2004, at 03:01, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: >> But as Dan said at the start \xF6 on its own (say as 1023 octet >> in a 0..1023 1024-octet buffer is not a fail. >> Changing that will make :encoding() layer have problems as buffer >> boundaries can occur in the middle of characters. > >Right. Encode-2.07 indeed had the problem, resulting bleedperl to fail >on ext/PerlIO/t/encoding.t, test 14. Encode-2.08 corrected the problem >by checking if the caller is PerlIO and if so, sets >Encode::RETURN_ON_ERR so it breaks out of the loop on partial character >case. > >I believe I have checked & tested enough but I would appreaciate if you >guys take a look, especially Encode.xs and t/fallback.t.
What about other uses of Encode that may get partial characters? ANY system which breaks strings into blocks can have this issue. > >Dan the Encode Maintainer
