[Catalyst] CSV / UTF-8 / Unicode

[Mike Whitaker]

On 2 Jul 2013, at 10:38, Craig Chant <craig at homeloanpartnership.com> wrote:
> 
> I thought all strings in perl were Unicode ? or at least that's what the Unicode::Encoding plugin is for isnt' it?

No.

Decoded strings in Perl are in a character representation which is magic and you don't need to know about. Assuming that representation is Unicode will bite you on the backside when you most want it not to.