Re: [Po4a-dev]Po4a Po.pm and write_to_filehandle

[Martin Quinson]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:20:13AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:29:28AM -0500, Martin Quinson wrote:
> > CVSROOT:    /cvsroot/po4a
> > Module name:        Po4a
> > Changes by: Martin Quinson <address@hidden> 02/11/15 10:29:27
> > 
> > Modified files:
> >     .              : Po.pm 
> > 
> > Log message:
> >     Seems to work
> 
> IMO having {read,write}_from_filehandle method is a very bad idea,
> because of recent changes in Perl (>= 5.8) interaction with UTF-8.
> When in UTF-8 locales, Perl can read and write files only if
>   * some black magic is performed when opening files (which cannot be
>     done on filehandles)
>   or
>   * files are UTF-8 encoded
> 
> Testing this module in a UTF-8 locale with perl >= 5.8 and latin-1 files
> should certainly exhibit some problems.

I did remove this functions from 0.8.2 (0.8.1 was to fix a bug in
pod-translate: when a translation is discarded, no need to write empty
files, but need to remove the file if present).

The 0.8.2 present on my page is signed (with a key itself signed by a DD,
available from keyserver.be).

Mt.

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