Re^4: Whether 'use utf8;' is good style

[Anonymous Monk]

Hi chromatic,

does that mean you suggest avoiding use utf8; in public packages?

Best regards
McA

[chromatic]

Quite the contrary. If you have literal strings you intend for Perl to deal with in the UTF-8 encoding, you'd better use that pragma.

If you're not explicit about Unicode and encodings, you're going to make a mess for other people to deal with. If you put UTF-8 in literals in your programs and don't use the utf8 pragma, you've acted irresponsibly.