[Catalyst] Encoding UTF8 ?

[John M. Dlugosz]

On 3/28/2011 3:16 PM, Bill Moseley moseley-at-hank.org |Catalyst/Allow to home| wrote:
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> Yes, that would be related to not encoding with the plugin.  You need the
> plugin to encode output so you don't that that message.
>
> John, you are better off ignoring that Perl is using UTF-8 internally. All
> byte data that represents characters must be decoded on input -- and
> likewise all characters in Perl must be encoded before writing.
>
>
> I know I discussed this before, but is there a plan to make decoding and
> encoding part of Catalyst core?  Seems to trip people up and it seems like
> something that should always be done.
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>
At the very least, low-hanging fruit would be to mention this in the error message.  "See 
FAQ entry #1234 at <url...>" when it dies!