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From:
David E. Wheeler
Date:
April 27, 2012 14:49
Subject:
Re: Non-ASCII data in POD
Message ID:
7E311B54-2A89-49F8-8FE8-86B7442579AF@justatheory.com
On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Grant McLean wrote:

> I'm not sure I quite understand what you're saying.  The first time a
> non-ASCII byte is encountered, the code will 'fire' and apply the
> heuristic to set an encoding.  Once the encoding is set, the code won't
> be called again.

Oh, perfect. I missed that.

> The perlpodspec seems pretty clear that a POD document containing
> different encodings should be considered an error.

As it should be.

David


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