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Re: [perl #33689] no warning that variables names cannot contain NUL bytes

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Nicholas Clark
Date:
January 6, 2005 10:10
Subject:
Re: [perl #33689] no warning that variables names cannot contain NUL bytes
Message ID:
20050106181007.GA77507@plum.flirble.org
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:46:13AM +0100, Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote:
> On 2005-01-06, at 08:42:07 +0000, Ton Hospel wrote:

> > If it's passed as a char* string internally, it also means it can't
> > properly handle utf8 since it misses the bit to tell if it's utf8 or
> > not. My preference is definitely for fixing.
> 
> Agreed.

Change 23763 adds TODO tests.

Nicholas Clark
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