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From:
Dan Book
Date:
July 18, 2017 07:13
Subject:
Re: [perl #131685] Rename utf8::is_utf8() (and other functions)
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 3:04 AM, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote:
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>
> I like this. What I miss here is a small example of how to guarantee
> preventing double encoding/decoding, as I think that is what is
> function is most often (erroneously) used for.
>
>
This isn't something that you can guarantee. It always depends on knowing
how you get your input. When people don't understand this they look for the
magic bullet that is_utf8 appears to be, but it is not.

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