AnyEvent::Log UTF8 strings to terminal?

[Mark Lawrence]

On Mon May 05, 2025 at 08:08:06AM -0400, Felipe Gasper wrote:
>FWIW I maintain that that pragma causes more trouble than it solves. 
>Here’s a presentation I did that touches on this: 
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH5IyYyvWHU&pp=ygUSZmVsaXBlIGdhc3BlciBwZXJs

Thanks for the informative presentation. I learned a lot, but not quite 
enough it seems :-(

>Omitting `use utf8` is one way to solve your problem.

Even with the video, I don't think your suggestion has quite enough 
context for me to understand how it helps.

Isn't the standard philosophy, that as a Perl User I should deal in 
(unicode) codepoints? And that I encode to/from UTF-8 at the boundaries? 

So by default I set filehandle encoding to UTF-8. If I now define UTF-8 
strings under "no utf8" I get mojibake:

     no utf8;
     binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)';
     say '│⣿';  # â⣿

So of course "use utf8" solves this problem under this philosophy. 
Unless, as in the AE::log case, there is a filehandle outside my 
control, which doesn't encode.

Your "no utf8" suggestion feels like the opposite. Are you saying use 
UTF-8 strings everywhere and do not encode filehandles? Or are you 
saying I need to keep track UTF-8 strings decode them just before 
output? Then lots of other things break...

What am I missing here? :-)

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Mark Lawrence