Boo for equating the string's internal encoding with whether it's been decoded or not.

If you "decode()" a non-ascii, non-utf8 string (or if it passes through a decoding IO layer on input), and the operation is successful, the string value returned by decode() has the utf8 flag on, and you get character semantics (not byte semantics) when doing stuff with that string -- that's the point of using "decode()" and the encoding IO layer, and that's all I was talking about in my suggestion. (My reply may well have been less than fully helpful for other reasons.)

As for U+00FE, perhaps I'm just behind the times, not having taken time to explore all the details of 5.10 yet. In 5.8.8, the "perl-internal utf8" storage of characters in the rang 0x80-0xFF is single-byte. They would be converted to multi-byte on output to a utf8-mode file handle. I don't recall at the moment what particular operations are sensitive to (or would reveal) this distinction, but it's there.

In reply to Re^3: Parsing UTF-16LE CSV Records Using Text::CSV* by graff
in thread Parsing UTF-16LE CSV Records Using Text::CSV* by Jim

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