[cgiapp] peer review request for UTF patch: "Stray UTF8 bit on headers infects the whole output"

[Rhesa Rozendaal]

Mark Stosberg wrote:
> Could someone who is more UTF-8 savvy than myself peer review this simple UTF-8
> patch for CGI::Application for me?
> 
> http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=46513
> 
> You can comment through the ticket or here.
> 
>     Mark
> 

You may find this thread on perlmonks relevant: 
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=683833

It also implies that the patch should probably test for the existence of the 
utf8::downgrade function (for older perls).

My personal opinion: this patch is probably a good idea (given that LWP does 
something similar), even though I have never had an issue with utf8 headers 
myself (and I do output quite a bit of utf8 content). I'm by no means an 
expert on encodings, but I do trust Juerds expertise on this subject (he's the 
author of perlunitut).

rhesa