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On 30/03/07, Juerd Waalboer <juerd@convolution.nl> wrote: > > use warnings 'upgrade'; > > This already exists on CPAN, authored by Audrey Tang, as > encoding::warnings: > > use encoding::warnings; > > But it will warn when Perl upgrades latin1 to utf-8, without knowing if > that is a bug or a feature, because it doesn't know if the "latin1" > string was meant as a text string or a byte string. Actually it's in the core, and lexical now. The meanings of pack C and U and their combinations have been changed years ago, by Ton Hospel, after lots of discussion. I'm not tempted to change them now, especially since I consider all changes from now on and until 5.10.0 to be last minute changes. Likewise for other semantic problems that might occur (UNIVERSAL::DOES() comes to mind.) Some prudence is in order, because I'm not confident in my own intelligence to find and implement a perfect solution now, and because at some point we need to stop patching and release. I'd like to call for a roundup of all open issues with blead. Also, the idea of modifying the typemap for char* might be a good one. However it needs carefulness and testing. I'm pretty sure it will break things -- esp. unnoticed breakage since I don't think that many XS module authors include unicode data in their test suites.Thread Next