[Catalyst] Re: decoding in core

[Zbigniew Lukasiak]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Jonathan Rockway <jon at jrock.us> wrote:
>
> Braindump follows.

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>
> One last thing, if this becomes core, it will definitely break people's
> apps.  Many, many apps are blissfully unaware of characters and treat
> text as binary... and their apps kind-of appear to work.  As soon as
> they get some real characters in their app, though, they will have
> double-encoded nonsense all over the place, and will blame you for this.
> ("I loaded Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode, and my app broke!  It's all your
> fault."  Yup, people mail that to me privately all the time.  For some
> reason, they think I am going to personally fix their app, despite
> having written volumes of documentation about this.  Wrong.)
>

Some more things to consider.

- 'use utf8' in the code generated by the helpers?

- ENCODING: UTF-8 for the TT view helper?

Maybe a global config option to choose the byte or character semantics?

But with the DB it becomes a bit more complex - because BLOB columns
probably need to use byte sematic.

-- 
Zbigniew Lukasiak
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