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On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 03:13:40 -0400, Dan Book <grinnz@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 3:04 AM, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > > > > 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. My point exactly. Just have a piece of text that tells the user why it isn't and what the best alternative *could* be. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.27 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next