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On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote:
> Unworkable. You can't introduce a type distinction into the current
> string type because it would break existing correct code such as
>
> sub decode_latin1 { $_[0] }
> $text_chars = $greeting_chars . decode_latin1($name_octets);
>
Making the result configurable (silent, warn, croak) makes that a non-issue
if the default is "silent", although a default of "warn" might be an
acceptable compromise.
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