Re^3: Whether 'use utf8;' is good style

And I want to know whether there are pitfalls, when someone is using a module with that pragma probably expecting the good old byte string world.

What would you expect to happen in that case? (I can't imagine things working correctly except by accident.)

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Re^4: Whether 'use utf8;' is good style by Anonymous Monk on Dec 18, 2012 at 18:57 UTC
Hi chromatic, does that mean you suggest avoiding `use utf8;` in public packages? Best regards McA	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Whether 'use utf8;' is good style by chromatic (Archbishop) on Dec 18, 2012 at 22:23 UTC
Quite the contrary. If you have literal strings you intend for Perl to deal with in the UTF-8 encoding, you'd better use that pragma. If you're not explicit about Unicode and encodings, you're going to make a mess for other people to deal with. If you put UTF-8 in literals in your programs and don't use the utf8 pragma, you've acted irresponsibly.	[reply]