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On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 3:28 PM Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote: > Rumor has it that a bunch of code breaks with [unicode_strings] > enabled; and I'm trying to track that down. Each time I'm told person X > knows code that breaks, and I've contacted that person, I'm told, "No, I > don't know of any code that breaks". The final person X I haven't > talked to yet is AFK for a week. > If a program doesn't decode its inputs and validates using a regex (e.g. /^\w+\z/), it would suddenly start accepting characters it didn't before. This could be *undersireable*, but would it outright *break* code? It could eventually lead to problems if someone unexpectedly creates an account named Éric, for example, but that might be acceptable. I think it would be nice to get this fix in. But that was just an example, and Paul Evans confirmed that what is enabled by C<< use v5.30; >> now will continue to be enabled by C<< use v7; >>.Thread Previous | Thread Next