Re: [PATCH] contrib/diff-highlight: multibyte characters diff

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 12, 2014, 23:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20140212232740.GA11098@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CA+39Oz5TSPNzYVvFytJwwUhRYjbEp5f_BdBWKT2tcYzpbF1WyQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:10:49PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:

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> On 12 February 2014 20:59, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > +sub decode {
> > +       my $orig = shift;
> > +       my $decoded = eval { decode_utf8($orig, Encode::FB_CROAK) };
> > +       return defined $decoded ?
> 
> I'd still advocate checking $@ here, rather than the defined $decoded check.

I don't mind changing it, but for my edification, what is the advantage?

-Peff