[perl #79824] hash value sharing breakage

On Wed Aug 28 07:57:40 2013, zefram@fysh.org wrote:
> Father Chrysostomos via RT wrote:
> >According to our records, your request regarding
> >  "hash value sharing breakage"
> >has been resolved.
> 
> My original pure-Perl test case still exhibits the problem that I
> reported, in perl 5.18.1 and 5.19.3.
> 
> $ perl5.18.1 -MEncode -lwe '%a=("L\x{c3}\x{a9}on"=>"acme"); ($k)=(keys
> %a); Encode::_utf8_on($k); %h = ($k => "acme"); print $h{"L\x{e9}on"}'
> Use of uninitialized value in print at -e line 1.
> 
> Either this case should start working, perhaps by Encode::_utf8_on()
> performing some COW operation, or the documentation for
> Encode::_utf8_on()
> needs more caveats.  (Currently it has a big warning about UTF-8
> well-formedness, but this usage does not fall foul of that.)
> 
> Using utf8::decode() instead of Encode::_utf8_on() does not exhibit
> the
> problem in perl 5.14 and above.  (In perl 5.12 it did.)

Shouldn’t this be reported at Encode’s bug tracker?

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Father Chrysostomos


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https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=79824

• Re: [perl #79824] hash value sharing breakage by Zefram
• Re: [perl #79824] hash value sharing breakage by Zefram
• Re: [perl #79824] hash value sharing breakage by Zefram
• [perl #79824] hash value sharing breakage by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• [perl #79824] hash value sharing breakage by Father Chrysostomos via RT