Re: [PATCH 11/15] remote-mediawiki tests: replace deprecated Perl construct

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 16, 2020, 18:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20200916184908.GD33925@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20200916102918.29805-12-avarab@gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 12:29:14PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> The use of the encoding pragma has been a hard error since Perl 5.18,
> which was released in 2013. What this script really wanted to do was
> to decode @ARGV and write out some files with the UTF-8 PerlIO
> layer. Let's just do that explicitly instead.

Makes sense. After reading this, I expected the utf::decode() for argv you added, but wondered about the UTF-8 output. But I think the "use open ':encoding(utf8)'" below takes care of that.

-Peff

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