[Catalyst] Re: Avoiding UTF8 in Catalyst

[Jonathan Rockway]

* On Tue, Dec 08 2009, Tomas Doran wrote:
> On 8 Dec 2009, at 05:34, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
>> Sorry to dig up a very old thread, but I am very behind on email and
>> wanted to comment :)
>
> No problem. Your insight as to why things are they way they are is
> useful :)
>
>>>
>>> I was shocked to discover this! Any code that uses bytes::length
>>> is automatically broken.
>>
>> FWIW, we did this so that people not using Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode
>> but
>> that had a Unicode string in memory would get something resembling the
>> correct result.
>
> When you said 'we did this', I looked at the blame history, and that
> code had been there since at or before 5.50.
>
> Did you mean 'it was done like this', 'it was explained to me to be
> this way because', or 'we made a conscious decision to keep it this
> way because'?
>
> Sorry for the pedantry, but I just 'fixed' this, so I'd like to
> clearly establish what grounds on which this may be considered a bad
> move :)

By "we", I am recalling some long discussion on IRC when I tried to
remove this code a few years ago.

If you removed it now and nobody is complaining, you++ :)

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway

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