[JDEV] utf8

[Jeremy Nickurak]

On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 09:48, Glen wrote:
> As it turns out, perl will use utf8 by default in it's strings; however,
> there is a utf8 "flag" on each variable that is not turned on by
> default.  
> 
> I was using the _is_utf8 function in the Encode module to test whether
> the string was utf8, but this only checks for the flag, which has to be
> explicitly set.  >:(
> 
> Basically, since I'm getting my content through LWP, I'm checking the
> content for the character set.  I search for /charset=UTF8/, if it
> doesn't exist, I convert to UTF8 using the Encode module: 
> 
> use Encode qw(encode);
> my $string = encode("utf", $string);

So how and where do you set this utf flag? Before or after the encoding
conversion?

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