PerlIO::utf8_strict

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: 2021-01-27
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NAME

PerlIO::utf8_strict - Fast and correct UTF-8 IO  

VERSION

version 0.008  

SYNOPSIS

 open my $fh, '<:utf8_strict', $filename;

 

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a fast and correct UTF-8 PerlIO layer. Unlike perl's default ":utf8" layer it checks the input for correctness.  

LAYER ARGUMENTS

allow_noncharacters
allow_surrogates
 

EXPORT

PerlIO::utf8_strict exports no subroutines or symbols, just a perl layer "utf8_strict"  

DIAGNOSTICS

Can't decode ill-formed UTF-8 octet sequence <%s>
(F) Encountered an ill-formed UTF-8 octet sequence. <%s> contains a hexadecimal representation of the maximal subpart of the ill-formed subsequence.
Can't interchange noncharacter code point U+%.4X
(F) Noncharacters is permanently reserved for internal use and that should never be interchanged. Noncharacters consist of the values U+nFFFE and U+nFFFF (where n is from 0 to 10^16) and the values U+FDD0..U+FDEF.
 

AUTHORS

Leon Timmermans <leont@cpan.org>
Christian Hansen <chansen@cpan.org>
 

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Leon Timmermans, Christian Hansen.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.


 

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SYNOPSIS
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EXPORT
DIAGNOSTICS
AUTHORS
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE