From: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:20:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Fix UTF Encoding issue
Message-ID: <20071204082021.GE31042@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
In-Reply-To: <200712041012.50935.ismail@pardus.org.tr>

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:12:50AM +0200, Ismail Dönmez wrote:
> I think just a better method is to use (not tested):
> 
> if( is_utf8($str) ) 
> {
> 	return decode_utf8($str);
> }
> else {
> 	return decode($str);
> }

I already tried this function. It does not test, if a string is
really UTF-8. It seems to be to intended to check, if perl stores
the string internally in a multi byte encoding.

mfg Martin Kögler.