in reply to Re^5: JSON::XS (and JSON::PP) appear to generate invalid UTF-8 for character in range 127 to 255
in thread JSON::XS (and JSON::PP) appear to generate invalid UTF-8 for character in range 127 to 255

Basically, you're suggesting changing the UTF8 flag to become a semantic indicator of a "decoded" string (along with the other changes necessary to make that happen). That might be possible, but it might be nicer if we could distinguish "binary (unknown)" from "binary (locale-encoded text)". But then again, the Windows API uses three encodings ("UNICODE", "ANSI" and "OEM").

  • Comment on Re^6: JSON::XS (and JSON::PP) appear to generate invalid UTF-8 for character in range 127 to 255

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom