Re: the utf8 flag (was Re: decode_utf8 sets utf8 flag on plain ascii strings)

Marc Lehmann skribis 2007-03-31  2:20 (+0200):
> But in fact, if you try it, nothing will get corrupted
unless you use
> unpack "C" to get the first byte of your
KOI8-string. Then you might get
> surprised (current perl) or an exception (Juerd's
idea).

Sigh...

It'll work just fine if the string is still a byte string,
which it will
be if you cared to keep it separated.
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