[cgiapp] encoding pragma and CGI::Session

[Mark Rajcok]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Ron Savage <ron at savage.net.au> wrote:

> > Todd, what was your intent with the   use encoding 'utf8';  line?  Do you
> > only want to save and restore UTF-8 encoded session data?  or do you want
> to
> > do that PLUS have Perl consider your script (i.e., file test.pl) to be
> > encoded in UTF-8?  I ask because I find this to be a common
> misunderstanding
> > about UTF-8.  The 'use encoding...' line is usually not what people
> should
> > use.  If you only want the script to read/write UTF-8, and your script is
> in
> > normal ASCII/ISO-8859-1 encoding, then try this instead of the 'use
> > encoding..' line to get the script to read and write UTF-8 on stdin and
> > stdout:
> >   binmode STDIN, ":encoding(utf8)";
> >   binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(utf8)";
> >
> > With the above two lines, your script worked for me.
>
> I find that with or without these 2 lines, the code works when:
> use encoding 'utf8';
> is not used, and fails when it is used.
>
> I sure hope we're agreed on that.
>

Yes, I/we agree.

Add the two binmode lines to get the original program (with 'use
encoding...' commented out) to work if you want UTF-8 encoding coming in and
going out of the program.  That should be all that is needed to use UTF-8
with stdin and stdout.

-- Mark