[Catalyst] Catalyst-plugin-prototype supports UTF8?

[Jonathan Rockway]

> Encode::_utf8_on().

Don't touch the UTF8 flag.  Do this:

$data = source_of_utf8_octets();
utf8::decode($data);

You can also get utf8 data like:

package foo;
use utf8;
my $data = "任天堂"; # 3 characters, no octets; don't call decode()

or

open(my $fh, '<:utf8', $filename)
my $data = do { local $/; <$fh> };

Playing with perl's internals isn't necessary, even though a few modules
do it any way.  The key is to make sure you get everything.  Try
encoding::warnings to help you.  (I tried and failed a number of times
with Encode::_utf8_on()... weird crashes, double-encoding, etc.  Just
use decode(); I do and everything works great.  You don't even need
View::TT::ForceUTF8 anymore, since you're doing everything correctly.)

If you are using utf8, you'll want C::P::Unicode also.  This will
encode() your output, so perl characters are transformed to utf8 octets.
 Otherwise you'll get errors about wide-characters in print at
Catalyst::Engine line something.  (This applies everywhere -- if you
pass characters where octets are expected, you'll receive a warning or
error from the interperter.  In that case, encode the characters to
octets.  Digest::MD5, for one, requires this because MD5 assumes 8-bit
characters.)

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway

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