Hi All!
I hit something weird I'd like to discuss with you. The behaviour below is there up until perl 5.20.2 at least, I didn't try it in anything more recent.
use strict;
use warnings;
use Encode qw< encode >;
my $chars = "whatever";
print length($chars),
" characters - initial string\n";
encode('UTF-8', $chars);
print length($chars),
" characters - first encode, no FB_CROAK\n";
encode('UTF-8', "$chars", Encode::FB_CROAK);
print length($chars),
" characters - second encode, FB_CROAK on, readonly string\n";
encode('UTF-8', $chars, Encode::FB_CROAK);
print length($chars),
" characters - third encode, FB_CROAK, on original string\n";
I would have expected that all the
prints above would just say that the string
$chars is 8 characters long... but perl thinks differently:
8 characters - initial string
8 characters - first encode, no FB_CROAK
8 characters - second encode, FB_CROAK on, readonly string
0 characters - third encode, FB_CROAK, on original string
So, it seems that if
FB_CROAK is on and the string to encode is
not readonly... it gets destroyed.
I tried with perl 5.8.8, 5.18.1 and 5.20.2, with the same results. I tried to look in the docs for Encode but to no avail. Tried to Google, but nothing. Tried to supersearch here... nothing.
Am I missing anything? Is this what's expected actually, and documented anywhere? Thanks!
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