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Guessed right, but practically wrong => let's clear the mess and fix things up?

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intrigeri 2011-05-10 01:07:53 +02:00
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>>>>>>> avoid this failure, while resulting in parsed yaml where every
>>>>>>> string was likewise not decoded unicode, which is not very useful.
>>>>>>> --[[Joey]]
>>>>>>>> You guessed right about the non-decoded bytes being passed to
>>>>>>>> YAML::XS, except this is the way it shall be done. YAML::XS
>>>>>>>> POD reads: "YAML::XS only deals with streams of utf8 octets".
>>>>>>>> Feed it with non-decoded UTF-8 bytes and it gives you
>>>>>>>> properly encoded UTF-8 Perl strings in exchange.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Once this has been made clear, since 1. this module indeed
>>>>>>>> seems to be the future of YAML in Perl, and 2. is depended on
>>>>>>>> by other popular software such as dh-make-perl (on the 2nd
>>>>>>>> degree), I suggest using it explicitly instead of the current
>>>>>>>> "try to support every single YAML Perl module and end up
>>>>>>>> conflicting with the now recommended one" nightmare.
>>>>>>>> --[[intrigeri]]