I am trying my first steps in C using Inline::C. I have written a couple of string handling functions that work quite well. They work on UTF-8 strings. What really bothers me is the required transcoding when passing the strings in and out of Perl, e.g.

$perl_string = decode("utf8", my_c_function(encode("utf8",$_)));

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Is there an elegant way around this encode/decode thing? (running Perl 5.10.1)

I understand that Perl's internal coding is UTF-8, but that it automatically transcodes to Latin-1 on in- and output, which causes my grief. Is the Perl interpreter smart enough to bypass these en-/decodings when it encounters the line above? I should hope so.

In reply to Bypass utf-8 encoding/decoding? by chayyoo

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