Hi,

my utf8 data often lose the utf8 flag. This happened when the data is stored in a database or when the data is processed by some other modules XS code.

When I use the data again in conjunction with another utf8 data, the dataset is updated again to utf8. With the result, that I get wrong results. Since my new dataset is partial updated to utf twice.

To overcome this, I update my data from the DB with Encode::_utf8_on. $utf = Encode::decode('utf8', $data) does also work, but I like to avoid the extra copy of $data.

Now to the question, how do you do that? And what is the recommened way?
Boris

In reply to Recommended way to set the utf8 flag without altering the data by borisz

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