On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Father Chrysostomos via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > I think it was agreed some time ago that that is a bug. The utf8 layer > should at least check for well-formedness (meaning that it produces a > valid perl scalar), even if it does not check for strict UTF-8 (disallow > certain codepoin(the latter being a matter of controversy). The complication of course is that there is no such thing as a utf8 layer. It's just a flag on top of another layer. For that matter making it a real layer may actually be a rather sensible thing, and since we're emulating doing that right now it shouldn't be very user visible either. LeonThread Previous | Thread Next