| Name : perl-Test-Mojibake
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| Version : 0.3
| Vendor : Fedora Project
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| Release : 3.fc15
| Date : 2011-10-04 17:42:38
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| Group : Development/Libraries
| Source RPM : perl-Test-Mojibake-0.3-3.fc15.src.rpm
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| Size : 0.04 MB
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| Packager : Fedora Project
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| Summary : Check your source for encoding misbehavior
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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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RPM found in directory: /packages/linux-pbone/archive.fedoraproject.org/fedora-secondary/updates/15/armhfp |
