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> What is this code trying to do? It's not obvious to me.
Sorry, Nick. It's trying to get $_ to hold a fully Unicode-
enabled character for purposes of pattern matches against it.
I need \s \w etc to work correctly on it, including across the
problematic Latin1 range of 128..255.
>> # fixes "the Unicode bug"
>> unless (utf8::is_utf8($_)) {
>> $_ = decode("iso-8859-1", $_);
>> }
> And (unless I'm missing something) the code as-is *isn't*
> flipping the internal flag, so there's no way it can leave
> internal structures in an inconsistent state.
I misunderstood what was being discussed. I thought it was all utf8::
functions, including even is_utf8, but rereading it appears that it's the
underbarred _utf8_on and _utf8_off functions that are the problem, where
people go flipping the utf8 bit no matter what the contents really are.
I knew that those would do me no good here.
I'm glad to learn that I'm actually playing by the rules.
--tom
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