Re: utf8 inconsistency in 5.15.7

rjbs asked:
> Father Chrysostomos, what happened here?  Clearly there's more stuff in the
> commit than seems related to the message.  Should it have gone in later?  > Maybe not at all?

I combined two commits by mistake.  The change to utf8::decode was a fix for bug #91850.  utf8::decode($object_with_string_overloading) was not working, so I fixed that by coercing the argument to a string.  It didn’t occur to me that it affected undef as well, but I would consider that a bug fix, too.  There is no reason these should be inconsistent:

$ perl5.14.2 -MData::Dumper -e '$x = undef; utf8::decode($x); print Dumper $x'
$VAR1 = undef;
$ perl5.14.2 -MData::Dumper -e '$x = undef; utf8::encode($x); print Dumper $x'
$VAR1 = '';

• utf8 inconsistency in 5.15.7 by H.Merijn Brand
• Re: utf8 inconsistency in 5.15.7 by Father Chrysostomos
• Re: utf8 inconsistency in 5.15.7 by andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR
• Re: utf8 inconsistency in 5.15.7 by Ricardo Signes