[Bug 729972] New: Review Request: perl-Test-Mojibake - Check your source for encoding misbehavior
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Summary: Review Request: perl-Test-Mojibake - Check your source for encoding misbehavior
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729972
Summary: Review Request: perl-Test-Mojibake - Check your source
for encoding misbehavior
Product: Fedora
Version: rawhide
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: medium
Priority: medium
Component: Package Review
AssignedTo: nobody(a)fedoraproject.org
ReportedBy: paul(a)city-fan.org
QAContact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
CC: notting(a)redhat.com,
package-review(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Classification: Fedora
Story Points: ---
Type: ---
Spec URL:
http://subversion.city-fan.org/repos/cfo-repo/perl-Test-Mojibake/branches...
SRPM URL:
http://www.city-fan.org/~paul/extras/perl-Test-Mojibake/perl-Test-Mojibak...
Description:
Many modern text editors automatically save files using UTF-8 codification.
However, the perl interpreter does not expect it by default. Whilst this does
not represent a big deal on (most) backend-oriented programs, Web framework
(Catalyst, Mojolicious) based applications will suffer so-called Mojibake
(literally: "unintelligible sequence of characters"). Even worse: if an editor
saves BOM (Byte Order Mark, U+FEFF character in Unicode) at the start of a
script with the executable bit set (on Unix systems), it won't execute at all,
due to shebang corruption.
Avoiding codification problems is quite simple:
* Always use utf8/use common::sense when saving source as UTF-8
* Always specify =encoding utf8 when saving POD as UTF-8
* Do neither of above when saving as ISO-8859-1
* Never save BOM (not that it's wrong; just avoid it as you'll barely
notice its presence when in trouble)
However, if you find yourself upgrading old code to use UTF-8 or trying to
standardize a big project with many developers, each one using a different
platform/editor, reviewing all files manually can be quite painful, especially
in cases where some files have multiple encodings (note: it all started when I
realized that gedit and derivatives are unable to open files with character
conversion tables).
Enter the Test::Mojibake ;)
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