in reply to Re: Why is utf8 flag set after Encode::decode of pure ASCII?
in thread Why is utf8 flag set after Encode::decode of pure ASCII?
Many people give such advice: ignore perl's internal encoding. Fine advice, at least in production. But Perl makes so many magic behind-the-scenes Unicode conversions, one often needs to look at this flag in order to understand what end is up during development. Grr.
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