On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:16:24AM +1030, Benjamin Close wrote: > Jakub Narebski wrote: > >On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Martin Koegler wrote: > >>On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 04:06:48AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote: > >>>Ismail Dönmez <ismail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>>>Monday 03 December 2007 Tarihinde 12:14:43 yazm??t?: > >>>>>Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>>>>>- eval { $res = decode_utf8($str, Encode::FB_CROAK); }; > >>>>>>- if (defined $res) { > >>>>>>- return $res; > >>>>>>- } else { > >>>>>>- return decode($fallback_encoding, $str, > >>>>>>Encode::FB_DEFAULT); > >>>>>>- } > >>>>>>+ eval { return ($res = decode_utf8($str, Encode::FB_CROAK)); > >>>>>>}; > >>>>>>+ return decode($fallback_encoding, $str, Encode::FB_DEFAULT); > >>>>>> } > >>>>>> > >>This version is broken on Debian sarge and etch. Feeding a UTF-8 and a > >>latin1 > >>encoding of the same character sequence yields to different results. > > For the record, this was on a debian sid machine. > > #perl --version > This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi > > and the result of not using the original patch was: > > <h1>Software error:</h1> > <pre>Cannot decode string with wide characters at > /usr/lib/perl/5.8/Encode.pm line 166. > </pre> > > > I haven't tried the other solutions tested here. Debian etch also has v5.8.8. My main question is, why is the error not catched? I'm not a perl programmer, but in your patch the first line is a NOP. The return in eval seems to only returns from the eval block, so any text is decoded as latin1 with the second statement. In the original version, decode($fallback_encoding, $str, Encode::FB_DEFAULT) can not emit an error, else it would in your version too. In your version, eval is able to surpress the error of decode_utf8($str, Encode::FB_CROAK);, but not in the original version. Strange. mfg Martin Kögler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html