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On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 10:26:31AM -0500, Felipe Gasper wrote: > https://github.com/FGasper/perl-rfcs/blob/rfc10_utf8_rename/rfcs/rfc0010.md > > Perl’s “UTF8 flag” confuses Perl users, and even occasionally its > maintainers. This RFC proposes to rename it in source code and > documentation, retaining old names as aliases to avoid breaking callers > of Perl’s C API (XS modules & embedders). > The UTF8 flag does what it says on the box - indicates the PV is encoded using (something like) UTF-8. If our documentation isn't clear about that at some point we should fix that. If the documentation is fine and users are ignoring that documentation renaming the flag isn't going to help. TonyThread Previous | Thread Next