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On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 11:08:48AM -0400, Dan Book wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 11:04 AM David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> > wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 11:45:21PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: > > > Question: Is there ever a real life scenario where a single > > > source file is not entirely the same encoding? > > Sure. Some code, in utf8, and then a binary blob in __DATA__ which the > > utf8 code reads and parses. > > > > It's not good practice, but it's what you had to do to easily distribute > > data in a CPAN distribution before File::ShareDir::Install existed. > Note this will currently break because the filehandle *is* shared between > code and DATA, unlike with POD. "use utf8" applies to both. But I would > consider the use case of non-textual data in DATA exceedingly rare. I stopped doing it a few years ago. I think I've seen it in test suites for some image-processing modules in the past. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist You can't spell AWESOME without ME!Thread Previous | Thread Next