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On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 1:22 PM G.W. Haywood via perl5-porters < perl5-porters@perl.org> wrote: > Hi there, > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2022, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote: > > > On a similar note: How do people feel about code which turns off the > > "my source encoding is UTF-8" pragma after having previously turned it > > on? I.e. > > > > use utf8; > > my $café = "Ĉu vi havas sandviĉojn?"; > > > > no utf8; > > > > If we disallow this kind of thing, we can remove further weird > > cornercases from the parser, because a bunch of unlikely situations no > > longer come up. > > > > As with VERSION: Are there any actually-valid use-cases for doing this > > kind of thing? > > I think there might be, and it makes me wonder about things like > > use open qw/ :encoding(UTF-8) :std /; > > and > > open( my $fh, "<:encoding(UTF-8)", $filename ) or die ... > > and if, and if so how, they might be affected. These operations are completely unrelated. "use utf8" only affects parsing of the source code. -DanThread Previous | Thread Next