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From: Larry Wall <a> Date: December 04, 2004 11:51:58 JST To: Subject: Re: Make Encode.pm support the real UTF-8 Message-Id: <[email protected]> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:12:12PM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: : I've no problem with 'utf131 being perl's unrestricted uft8 encoding, : but "UTF-8" is the name of the standard and should give the : corresponding behaviour. For what it's worth, that's how I've always kept them straight in my head. Also for what it's worth, Perl 6 will mostly default to strict but make it easy to switch back to lax. Larry Do you copy? As of Perl 5.8.7, B<UTF-8> means strict, official UTF-8 while B<utf8> means liberal, lax, version thereof. And Encode version 2.10 or later thus groks the difference between C<UTF-8> and C"utf8". EFTA00780196