Petr Pajas wrote:

> Steve Hay <steve.hay@[...].com> writes:
> 
> >There don't appear to be any "official" functions to turn off the
> >UTF-8
> >flag.  The other functions in the Encode module are for converting
> >data to/from different encodings; the data in question here is already
> >encoded in UTF-8 -- I'm only fiddling with whether or not it is
> >"flagged" as such.
> >    
> >
> i don't agree. having a non-flagged octet in utf-8 encoding, you may
> use decode('utf8',$string) to make it proper Perl 5.8 utf-8 encoded
> string.
>   
> 
The Encode manpage says that the returned string will have the UTF-8 
flag *on* unless the supplied string consists entirely of ASCII data, 
which in my example it doesn't.

Thus,

    $str = decode('utf8', $str);

does *not* turn off the UTF-8 in $str when $str contains non-ASCII data. 
 The only way I found to turn it off for sure is to use the _utf8_off() 
function.

Out of desperation, I tried this suggestion anyway and found that it 
makes things even worse!  I now get some data that was not previously 
flagged as UTF-8 being flagged, followed by Perl crashing with a nasty 
Windows Popup Error -- something that I never managed to induce using 
the risky "internal" function!

- Steve

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