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Current version: 1.3-alt1_13
Build date: 20 november 2019, 11:38 ( 232.7 weeks ago )
Size: 40.52 Kb
Home page: https://metacpan.org/release/Test-Mojibake
License: GPL+ or Artistic
Summary: Check your source for encoding misbehavior
Description:
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Build date: 20 november 2019, 11:38 ( 232.7 weeks ago )
Size: 40.52 Kb
Home page: https://metacpan.org/release/Test-Mojibake
License: GPL+ or Artistic
Summary: Check your source for encoding misbehavior
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 ;)
Current maintainer: Igor Vlasenko 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 ;)
List of contributors List of rpms provided by this srpm:
- perl-Test-Mojibake