Re: [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixed records can corrupt validUTF-8 input

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Eric Brine <ikegami@adaelis.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Karl Williamson via RT <
> perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
>
>> I can't find my proposal in the record of this ticket, nor anyone
>> responding to it.  The documentation says that $/ gives the *maximum*
>> record size.  So why not return as many whole characters as will fit in
>> $/ bytes?
>>
>
> Sounds like "can't make everyone happy, so make everyone unhappy".
>
> It doesn't help those who want $/ to control the number of elements read
> by the leftmost layer.
>
> It doesn't help those who want $/ to control the number of elements read
> by the rightmost layer.
>
> That last "read" should say "returned".

- Eric

• [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixed records can corrupt valid UTF-8 input by Karl Williamson via RT
• Re: [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixed records can corrupt validUTF-8 input by Eric Brine
• Re: [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixed records can corrupt validUTF-8 input by demerphq
• Is $/ the right abstraction? [was: Setting $/ to read fixed recordscan corrupt valid UTF-8 input] by Aristotle Pagaltzis
• Re: Is $/ the right abstraction? [was: Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input] by David Golden
• Re: Is $/ the right abstraction? [was: Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input] by Eric Brine
• Re: Is $/ the right abstraction? [was: Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input] by Mark Jason Dominus
• Re: Is $/ the right abstraction? [was: Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input] by Ricardo Signes
• Re: Is $/ the right abstraction? [was: Setting $/ to read fixed records can corrupt valid UTF-8 input] by Tom Christiansen
• Re: Is $/ the right abstraction? [was: Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input] by Aristotle Pagaltzis
• Re: Is $/ the right abstraction? [was: Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input] by Aristotle Pagaltzis
• Re: [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixed records can corrupt validUTF-8 input by Eric Brine
• what was VMS do here? (was [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input) by Nicholas Clark
• Re: what was VMS do here? (was [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixed records can corrupt valid UTF-8 input) by Johan Vromans
• Re: what was VMS do here? (was [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input) by Craig A. Berry
• Re: what was VMS do here? (was [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input) by Craig A. Berry
• Re: what was VMS do here? (was [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input) by Eric Brine
• Re: what was VMS do here? (was [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input) by Craig A. Berry
• Re: what was VMS do here? (was [perl #79960] Setting $/ to readfixed records can corrupt valid UTF-8 input) by Nicholas Clark
• Re: what was VMS do here? (was [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input) by Craig A. Berry
• Re: what was VMS do here? (was [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input) by Craig A. Berry
• Re: what was VMS do here? (was [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input) by Eric Brine
• Re: what was VMS do here? (was [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input) by Eric Brine
• Re: what was VMS do here? (was [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input) by Craig A. Berry
• Re: what was VMS do here? (was [perl #79960] Setting $/ to read fixedrecords can corrupt valid UTF-8 input) by Eric Brine