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Marc Lehmann
Date:
May 17, 2008 06:19
Subject:
Re: on the almost impossibility to write correct XS modules
Message ID:
20080517131733.GF15088@schmorp.de
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 04:31:13PM -0700, Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> wrote:
> encoding whereas they really are ANSI encoded. So once the automatic
> upgrading assumes ANSI encoding instead of Latin-1, everything should be
> working correctly, no?

Uhm.... that one can even suggest such brokenness :)

Of course basically everything will break, you mean, because the
assumption that its not latin1 of course breaks roughly all code dealing
with unicode in perl, which doesn't expect that perl suddenly uses ANSI
instead of unicode codepoints (they differ!).

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