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From:
Eirik Berg Hanssen
Date:
June 18, 2013 10:36
Subject:
Re: [perl #113824] Regexp error messages are not UTF8-clean
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:53 AM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The interface for Perl_croak() and friends do not support UTF8 at all.
> They accept only a char* pointer, and have no facility for a UTF8
> flag.


  Then it can be safely used as neither UTF-8 nor any 8-bit encoding, right?

  Shouldn't they then, to preserve sanity, treat the char* data as binary
and convert all high-bit-set bytes to some ASCII representation (octal
escape sequences or whatever)?

  That would still leak internal representation, but at least it would be
an actual internal representation ...


Eirik
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