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Now I'm confused. a) how would it hurt? b) Why does it seem not to hurt in my use now?

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Re^8: unpacking wmic command's unicode output
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 12, 2008 at 21:15 UTC

    how would it hurt?

    >perl -e"print qq{C\x00a\x00p\x00}" | perl -CS -we"print length <>"
6

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    Why does it seem not to hurt in my use now?

    Because -CS has no effect if there are no bytes with bit 7 set.

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      but that's not -CS's fault, as it prints 6 without -CS as well. Or am I missing something still?

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      use strict;
      use warnings;
      I humbly seek wisdom.
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        Ok, I'll cede that while it has an effect (data from STDIN should be considered decoded), saying it's harmful is incorrect.

        However, it doesn't fix the problem it's suppose to fix. As a solution, it's useless and therefore wrong.

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