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My apologies, hit send too soon:
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 at 01:23, Tom Molesworth <tom@deriv.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 at 01:17, Felipe Gasper <felipe@felipegasper.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> -----
>> use v5.36;
>> use Encode;
>> print Encode::encode_utf8('Hello, world!');
>> -----
>>
>> ⦠and any ensuing explanation will have to discuss character encoding,
>> and the fact that Perl canât tell text from bytes. Right away this simple
>> example draws attention to one of Perlâs more frustration-prone qualities.
>>
>> Respectfully, I just canât see how this improves the language, and Iâm
>> surprised more folks arenât voicing similar thoughts. Iâd love to be wrong;
>> I guess weâll see.
>>
>
> In core, the official answer is "use utf8" with "binmode":
>
> https://perldoc.perl.org/perluniintro
>
> Outside core Perl, one of the commonly shared guides is
>
>
... this summary by tchrist:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/6163129
A general mantra of "transcode at the edges" is something I personally find
more helpful than adding encode/decode operations throughout the core of
the code.
Enabling utf8 by default (lexical scope) conflicts with our inability to
enable the `encoding(UTF-8)` binmode by default (global scope).
Nice as utf8-everywhere might be - for some use-cases, at least - I don't
think there has been any viable option provided to resolve this?
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