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From:
Leon Timmermans
Date:
January 6, 2020 22:53
Subject:
Re: “strict” strings?
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On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 5:06 PM Felipe Gasper <felipe@felipegasper.com> wrote:
> And won’t code that follows `perlunitut`’s prescribed workflow already fit that perfectly well?
>
> undecode()d == binary == !SVfUTF8

This should generally be true, but it is actually legal for it to have
the flag set (as long as it doesn't contain codepoints > 0xFF)

> decode()d == character == SVfUTF8

A decoded string may or may not have the SVfUTF8 flag set. This is not
something you should assume.

Leon
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