Gisle (and porters)

On Mar 01, 2005, at 04:23, Gisle Aas wrote:
>  The :utf8 layer just slaps on the UTF8 flag trusting the data it reads
>  to be well formed utf8.
> 
>  You can use the :encoding(UTF-8) layer if you don't trust the file
>  content to be valid UTF8, and then set $PerlIO::encoding::fallback to
>  specify what to do with bad sequences.
> 
>  Regards,
>  Gisle

That reminds me....

Encode 2.10 will introduce utf-8-strict, thanks to you.  I have 
released 2.0902 as a preview release on Feb. 16 but no one sent me a 
report.  Did you give it a try?  I want Perl 5.8.7 to ship with that so 
your review is very appreciated.

It is available at:

http://www.dan.co.jp/~dankogai/Encode-2.0902.tar.gz

Dan the Encode Maintainer