Re^3: unicode strings without decoding or warnings or corruption

How is your code a solution, given the stated (and weird) restriction of

I looked through my stuff and found that snippet to iterate over an arbitrary structure -- I thought I would have to write something from scratch

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Re^4: unicode strings without decoding or warnings or corruption by Khen1950fx (Canon) on May 13, 2012 at 20:49 UTC
OK--you lost me there. Why can't you use decode? Using your first snippet, I got: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Encode; require Encode::Detect; my $data = "Foo \xE2\x80\x94 Bar"; my $utf8 = decode("Detect", $data); binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)"; print $utf8;` [download] What's lame about that?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: unicode strings without decoding or warnings or corruption by Anonymous Monk on May 14, 2012 at 04:39 UTC
OK--you lost me there... Lost you? Try reading what I posted, stuff like like "large data structure" and "I thought I would have to write something from scratch "	[reply]