Re: BUG #5334: Version 2.22 of Perl Safe module breaks UTF8 PostgreSQL 8.4

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 09:32:38AM -0700, Alex Hunsaker wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 09:18, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It seems to me a more correct fix would be to require utf8; inside of
> > the safe like we do strict.
> > ....
> > Id favor this approach as if you have utf8 strings the likely hood
> > that you want ::upgrade, ::downgrade, ::encode, ::valid or ::is_utf8
> > is fairly high.  Then again, no one has complained thus far...  Maybe
> > thats just me :)
>
> On second thought, I dont think we should import any of those by
> default.  And your hack for just SWASHNEW is better.

Here's the corresponding perlbug http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=72942

I'll retest 8.4 and 9.0 against this on Monday.

Tim.