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pali
Date:
July 4, 2017 07:17
Subject:
Re: [perl #131685] Rename utf8::is_utf8() (and other functions)
Message ID:
20170704071139.GA15267@pali
On Monday 03 July 2017 21:35:06 Dan Book wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > As a side note, the original thread refers to:
> >
> > https://metacpan.org/source/SHAY/perl-5.24.1/cpan/Archive-
> > Tar/lib/Archive/Tar.pm#L1501
> >
> > which I could see as correct because of the way perl's unicode support
> > (fails to) deal with filenames.
> >
> > Tony
> >
> 
> Not entirely correct IMO. If the intent is that filenames be encoded to
> UTF-8, this will fail to encode downgraded names with non-ascii characters.
> 
> -Dan

See bug: https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=130831
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