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

[fREW Schmidt]

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Rhesa Rozendaal <perl at rhesa.com> wrote:

> 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).
>

One of my coworkers had the hardest time getting CGIApp running with utf8
output.  This would certainly be a good thing.  As far as impl goes though I
have no clue.
-- 
fREW Schmidt
http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com