Re: Bug in Encode::encode('MIME-Q', $iso_8859_1_string)

[Sven Neuhaus]

John Delacour wrote:
> At 3:54 pm +0100 23/11/05, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
> 
>> this seems to be a bug:
>>
>> b)
>> perl -MHTML::Entities -MEncode -e '$a="abcÄ";
>> print encode("MIME-Q", HTML::Entities::decode($a)), "\n";'
>>
>> Result:
>> =?UTF-8?Q?abc=C4def?=
> 
> 
> 
> What about this:
> 
>      perl -MHTML::Entities -MEncode -e 'use encoding ("iso-8859-1");
>      $a = "abc&Auml"; print encode "MIME-Q", decode_entities $a . $/'
> 
>      =?UTF-8?Q?abc=C3=84?=

I don't want to use encoding iso-8859-1... Can't the encode function just
recognize the string charset (UTF-8 or not)? That would be The Right Thing.

-Sven