This article refers folks to Perl internals but doesn’t describe when it is (and isn’t) useful to look at them. In a lot of cases it’s a red herring that can reinforce incorrect mental models about how all of this works.
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I’m still wondering why it would matter whether someone got the data into internal-UTF8 or internal-bytes. Are you unable to use unicode_strings?
unicode_strings
won't help when the problem is "print
does weird stuff" because the data is already broken by the time my code gets it.But
print
doesn’t care what the string internals are …This article refers folks to Perl internals but doesn’t describe when it is (and isn’t) useful to look at them. In a lot of cases it’s a red herring that can reinforce incorrect mental models about how all of this works.