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From:
Johan Vromans
Date:
April 26, 2012 10:33
Subject:
Re: unicode question
Message ID:
m24ns6csaj.fsf@phoenix.squirrel.nl
Jesse Luehrs <doy@tozt.net> writes:
> Why are you assuming that text is the only thing that people ever pipe
> to a program? Interpreting STDIN as UTF-8 would break something along
> the lines of a perl implementation of gzip, for instance.
I expect a Perl program that processes binary information from STDIN to
use an explicit binmode.
-- Johan
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