Re^3: UTF8 Validity

[Juerd]

in reply to Re^2: UTF8 Validity
in thread UTF8 Validity

Just try to decode something as UTF-8. If that fails, fall back to something else.

For example:

$foo = eval { decode("UTF-8", $foo, Encode::FB_CROAK) } 
    || decode("CP1252", $foo);