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- package encoding::warnings;
- $encoding::warnings::VERSION = '0.11';
-
- use strict;
- use 5.007;
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- encoding::warnings - Warn on implicit encoding conversions
-
- =head1 VERSION
-
- This document describes version 0.11 of encoding::warnings, released
- June 5, 2007.
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- use encoding::warnings; # or 'FATAL' to raise fatal exceptions
-
- utf8::encode($a = chr(20000)); # a byte-string (raw bytes)
- $b = chr(20000); # a unicode-string (wide characters)
-
- # "Bytes implicitly upgraded into wide characters as iso-8859-1"
- $c = $a . $b;
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- =head2 Overview of the problem
-
- By default, there is a fundamental asymmetry in Perl's unicode model:
- implicit upgrading from byte-strings to unicode-strings assumes that
- they were encoded in I<ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)>, but unicode-strings are
- downgraded with UTF-8 encoding. This happens because the first 256
- codepoints in Unicode happens to agree with Latin-1.
-
- However, this silent upgrading can easily cause problems, if you happen
- to mix unicode strings with non-Latin1 data -- i.e. byte-strings encoded
- in UTF-8 or other encodings. The error will not manifest until the
- combined string is written to output, at which time it would be impossible
- to see where did the silent upgrading occur.
-
- =head2 Detecting the problem
-
- This module simplifies the process of diagnosing such problems. Just put
- this line on top of your main program:
-
- use encoding::warnings;
-
- Afterwards, implicit upgrading of high-bit bytes will raise a warning.
- Ex.: C<Bytes implicitly upgraded into wide characters as iso-8859-1 at
- - line 7>.
-
- However, strings composed purely of ASCII code points (C<0x00>..C<0x7F>)
- will I<not> trigger this warning.
-
- You can also make the warnings fatal by importing this module as:
-
- use encoding::warnings 'FATAL';
-
- =head2 Solving the problem
-
- Most of the time, this warning occurs when a byte-string is concatenated
- with a unicode-string. There are a number of ways to solve it:
-
- =over 4
-
- =item * Upgrade both sides to unicode-strings
-
- If your program does not need compatibility for Perl 5.6 and earlier,
- the recommended approach is to apply appropriate IO disciplines, so all
- data in your program become unicode-strings. See L<encoding>, L<open> and
- L<perlfunc/binmode> for how.
-
- =item * Downgrade both sides to byte-strings
-
- The other way works too, especially if you are sure that all your data
- are under the same encoding, or if compatibility with older versions
- of Perl is desired.
-
- You may downgrade strings with C<Encode::encode> and C<utf8::encode>.
- See L<Encode> and L<utf8> for details.
-
- =item * Specify the encoding for implicit byte-string upgrading
-
- If you are confident that all byte-strings will be in a specific
- encoding like UTF-8, I<and> need not support older versions of Perl,
- use the C<encoding> pragma:
-
- use encoding 'utf8';
-
- Similarly, this will silence warnings from this module, and preserve the
- default behaviour:
-
- use encoding 'iso-8859-1';
-
- However, note that C<use encoding> actually had three distinct effects:
-
- =over 4
-
- =item * PerlIO layers for B<STDIN> and B<STDOUT>
-
- This is similar to what L<open> pragma does.
-
- =item * Literal conversions
-
- This turns I<all> literal string in your program into unicode-strings
- (equivalent to a C<use utf8>), by decoding them using the specified
- encoding.
-
- =item * Implicit upgrading for byte-strings
-
- This will silence warnings from this module, as shown above.
-
- =back
-
- Because literal conversions also work on empty strings, it may surprise
- some people:
-
- use encoding 'big5';
-
- my $byte_string = pack("C*", 0xA4, 0x40);
- print length $a; # 2 here.
- $a .= ""; # concatenating with a unicode string...
- print length $a; # 1 here!
-
- In other words, do not C<use encoding> unless you are certain that the
- program will not deal with any raw, 8-bit binary data at all.
-
- However, the C<Filter =E<gt> 1> flavor of C<use encoding> will I<not>
- affect implicit upgrading for byte-strings, and is thus incapable of
- silencing warnings from this module. See L<encoding> for more details.
-
- =back
-
- =head1 CAVEATS
-
- For Perl 5.9.4 or later, this module's effect is lexical.
-
- For Perl versions prior to 5.9.4, this module affects the whole script,
- instead of inside its lexical block.
-
- =cut
-
- # Constants.
- sub ASCII () { 0 }
- sub LATIN1 () { 1 }
- sub FATAL () { 2 }
-
- # Install a ${^ENCODING} handler if no other one are already in place.
- sub import {
- my $class = shift;
- my $fatal = shift || '';
-
- local $@;
- return if ${^ENCODING} and ref(${^ENCODING}) ne $class;
- return unless eval { require Encode; 1 };
-
- my $ascii = Encode::find_encoding('us-ascii') or return;
- my $latin1 = Encode::find_encoding('iso-8859-1') or return;
-
- # Have to undef explicitly here
- undef ${^ENCODING};
-
- # Install a warning handler for decode()
- my $decoder = bless(
- [
- $ascii,
- $latin1,
- (($fatal eq 'FATAL') ? 'Carp::croak' : 'Carp::carp'),
- ], $class,
- );
-
- ${^ENCODING} = $decoder;
- $^H{$class} = 1;
- }
-
- sub unimport {
- my $class = shift;
- $^H{$class} = undef;
- undef ${^ENCODING};
- }
-
- # Don't worry about source code literals.
- sub cat_decode {
- my $self = shift;
- return $self->[LATIN1]->cat_decode(@_);
- }
-
- # Warn if the data is not purely US-ASCII.
- sub decode {
- my $self = shift;
-
- DO_WARN: {
- if ($] >= 5.009004) {
- my $hints = (caller(0))[10];
- $hints->{ref($self)} or last DO_WARN;
- }
-
- local $@;
- my $rv = eval { $self->[ASCII]->decode($_[0], Encode::FB_CROAK()) };
- return $rv unless $@;
-
- require Carp;
- no strict 'refs';
- $self->[FATAL]->(
- "Bytes implicitly upgraded into wide characters as iso-8859-1"
- );
-
- }
-
- return $self->[LATIN1]->decode(@_);
- }
-
- sub name { 'iso-8859-1' }
-
- 1;
-
- __END__
-
- =head1 SEE ALSO
-
- L<perlunicode>, L<perluniintro>
-
- L<open>, L<utf8>, L<encoding>, L<Encode>
-
- =head1 AUTHORS
-
- Audrey Tang
-
- =head1 COPYRIGHT
-
- Copyright 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 by Audrey Tang E<lt>cpan@audreyt.orgE<gt>.
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the same terms as Perl itself.
-
- See L<http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>
-
- =cut
-