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package encoding::warnings; | |
$encoding::warnings::VERSION = '0.13'; | |
use strict; | |
use 5.007; | |
=head1 NAME | |
encoding::warnings - Warn on implicit encoding conversions | |
=head1 VERSION | |
This document describes version 0.13 of encoding::warnings, released | |
June 20, 2016. | |
=head1 NOTICE | |
As of Perl 5.26.0, this module has no effect. The internal Perl feature | |
that was used to implement this module has been removed. In recent years, | |
much work has been done on the Perl core to eliminate discrepancies in the | |
treatment of upgraded versus downgraded strings. In addition, the | |
L<encoding> pragma, which caused many of the problems, is no longer | |
supported. Thus, the warnings this module produced are no longer | |
necessary. | |
Hence, if you load this module on Perl 5.26.0, you will get one warning | |
that the module is no longer supported; and the module will do nothing | |
thereafter. | |
=head1 SYNOPSIS | |
use encoding::warnings; # or 'FATAL' to raise fatal exceptions | |
utf8::encode($a = chr(20000)); # a byte-string (raw bytes) | |
$b = chr(20000); # a unicode-string (wide characters) | |
# "Bytes implicitly upgraded into wide characters as iso-8859-1" | |
$c = $a . $b; | |
=head1 DESCRIPTION | |
=head2 Overview of the problem | |
By default, there is a fundamental asymmetry in Perl's unicode model: | |
implicit upgrading from byte-strings to unicode-strings assumes that | |
they were encoded in I<ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1)>, but unicode-strings are | |
downgraded with UTF-8 encoding. This happens because the first 256 | |
codepoints in Unicode happens to agree with Latin-1. | |
However, this silent upgrading can easily cause problems, if you happen | |
to mix unicode strings with non-Latin1 data -- i.e. byte-strings encoded | |
in UTF-8 or other encodings. The error will not manifest until the | |
combined string is written to output, at which time it would be impossible | |
to see where did the silent upgrading occur. | |
=head2 Detecting the problem | |
This module simplifies the process of diagnosing such problems. Just put | |
this line on top of your main program: | |
use encoding::warnings; | |
Afterwards, implicit upgrading of high-bit bytes will raise a warning. | |
Ex.: C<Bytes implicitly upgraded into wide characters as iso-8859-1 at | |
- line 7>. | |
However, strings composed purely of ASCII code points (C<0x00>..C<0x7F>) | |
will I<not> trigger this warning. | |
You can also make the warnings fatal by importing this module as: | |
use encoding::warnings 'FATAL'; | |
=head2 Solving the problem | |
Most of the time, this warning occurs when a byte-string is concatenated | |
with a unicode-string. There are a number of ways to solve it: | |
=over 4 | |
=item * Upgrade both sides to unicode-strings | |
If your program does not need compatibility for Perl 5.6 and earlier, | |
the recommended approach is to apply appropriate IO disciplines, so all | |
data in your program become unicode-strings. See L<encoding>, L<open> and | |
L<perlfunc/binmode> for how. | |
=item * Downgrade both sides to byte-strings | |
The other way works too, especially if you are sure that all your data | |
are under the same encoding, or if compatibility with older versions | |
of Perl is desired. | |
You may downgrade strings with C<Encode::encode> and C<utf8::encode>. | |
See L<Encode> and L<utf8> for details. | |
=item * Specify the encoding for implicit byte-string upgrading | |
If you are confident that all byte-strings will be in a specific | |
encoding like UTF-8, I<and> need not support older versions of Perl, | |
use the C<encoding> pragma: | |
use encoding 'utf8'; | |
Similarly, this will silence warnings from this module, and preserve the | |
default behaviour: | |
use encoding 'iso-8859-1'; | |
However, note that C<use encoding> actually had three distinct effects: | |
=over 4 | |
=item * PerlIO layers for B<STDIN> and B<STDOUT> | |
This is similar to what L<open> pragma does. | |
=item * Literal conversions | |
This turns I<all> literal string in your program into unicode-strings | |
(equivalent to a C<use utf8>), by decoding them using the specified | |
encoding. | |
=item * Implicit upgrading for byte-strings | |
This will silence warnings from this module, as shown above. | |
=back | |
Because literal conversions also work on empty strings, it may surprise | |
some people: | |
use encoding 'big5'; | |
my $byte_string = pack("C*", 0xA4, 0x40); | |
print length $a; # 2 here. | |
$a .= ""; # concatenating with a unicode string... | |
print length $a; # 1 here! | |
In other words, do not C<use encoding> unless you are certain that the | |
program will not deal with any raw, 8-bit binary data at all. | |
However, the C<Filter =E<gt> 1> flavor of C<use encoding> will I<not> | |
affect implicit upgrading for byte-strings, and is thus incapable of | |
silencing warnings from this module. See L<encoding> for more details. | |
=back | |
=head1 CAVEATS | |
For Perl 5.9.4 or later, this module's effect is lexical. | |
For Perl versions prior to 5.9.4, this module affects the whole script, | |
instead of inside its lexical block. | |
=cut | |
# Constants. | |
sub ASCII () { 0 } | |
sub LATIN1 () { 1 } | |
sub FATAL () { 2 } | |
sub import { | |
if ($] >= 5.025003) { | |
require Carp; | |
Carp::cluck( | |
"encoding::warnings is not supported on Perl 5.26.0 and later" | |
); | |
return; | |
} | |
# Install a ${^ENCODING} handler if no other one are already in place. | |
my $class = shift; | |
my $fatal = shift || ''; | |
local $@; | |
return if ${^ENCODING} and ref(${^ENCODING}) ne $class; | |
return unless eval { require Encode; 1 }; | |
my $ascii = Encode::find_encoding('us-ascii') or return; | |
my $latin1 = Encode::find_encoding('iso-8859-1') or return; | |
# Have to undef explicitly here | |
undef ${^ENCODING}; | |
# Install a warning handler for decode() | |
my $decoder = bless( | |
[ | |
$ascii, | |
$latin1, | |
(($fatal eq 'FATAL') ? 'Carp::croak' : 'Carp::carp'), | |
], $class, | |
); | |
no warnings 'deprecated'; | |
${^ENCODING} = $decoder; | |
use warnings 'deprecated'; | |
$^H{$class} = 1; | |
} | |
sub unimport { | |
my $class = shift; | |
$^H{$class} = undef; | |
undef ${^ENCODING}; | |
} | |
# Don't worry about source code literals. | |
sub cat_decode { | |
my $self = shift; | |
return $self->[LATIN1]->cat_decode(@_); | |
} | |
# Warn if the data is not purely US-ASCII. | |
sub decode { | |
my $self = shift; | |
DO_WARN: { | |
if ($] >= 5.009004) { | |
my $hints = (caller(0))[10]; | |
$hints->{ref($self)} or last DO_WARN; | |
} | |
local $@; | |
my $rv = eval { $self->[ASCII]->decode($_[0], Encode::FB_CROAK()) }; | |
return $rv unless $@; | |
require Carp; | |
no strict 'refs'; | |
$self->[FATAL]->( | |
"Bytes implicitly upgraded into wide characters as iso-8859-1" | |
); | |
} | |
return $self->[LATIN1]->decode(@_); | |
} | |
sub name { 'iso-8859-1' } | |
1; | |
__END__ | |
=head1 SEE ALSO | |
L<perlunicode>, L<perluniintro> | |
L<open>, L<utf8>, L<encoding>, L<Encode> | |
=head1 AUTHORS | |
Audrey Tang | |
=head1 COPYRIGHT | |
Copyright 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 by Audrey Tang E<lt>[email protected]<gt>. | |
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
under the same terms as Perl itself. | |
See L<http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html> | |
=cut | |