The use of a raw filehandle for output of non-binary data

That was the problem, that I used raw filehandle for binary-only data.

something like this:

# $binarydata is binary data, $id is a ASCII-only number, $command is 
+ASCII-only string.
# so result of concatenation should be binary data
my $line = "$id\t$command\t$datalength\t$binarydata";
syswrite $file, $line ...

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However i've received $id in another part of program, like this: 

my ($id, $filename) = split (/\t/, $record);

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Problem that $record was UTF-8 character string by intention and contained non-ASCII filename. Thus ASCII-only $id had UTF-8 bit set.

And thus $line was UTF-8 non-ASCII character string with $binarydata screwed (i.e. bytes converted from Latin-1 to UTF-8).

Suprisely everything worked fine, as screwed $binarydata was converted back (bytes from UTF-8 to Latin-1) when I wrote it using syswrite().

So I notices that strange implementation only when added some additional stuff to that code (like I used bytes::length somewhere).

So I am thinking now, either I am responsible to make sure that $id never will have UTF-8 bit set. Either I should, in additional, test it with "confess if is_utf8($id)". Or maybe I should never concatenate binary data with known ASCII-only-data.Or maybe even never concatenate with known binary data...

In reply to Re^6: Unicode strings internals by vsespb
in thread [SOLVED] Unicode strings internals by vsespb

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