[boutil@debian.org: help wanted for DPNhtml2mail.pl: deprecated encoding pragma with perl 5.26]

[Cédric Boutillier <boutil@debian.org>]

Dear Perl team,

In the publicity team, we have some problems with a Perl script we use.
A warning about encoding was transformed to fatal error with perl 5.26.
Since this script is used to convert announcements from the website to
emails, we will soon need it for the release of 9.4.

Please see the details below, and keep the debian-publicity in copy of
the mail for your appreciated expertise.

Thanks in advance.

Cédric

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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:44:08 +0100
From: Cédric Boutillier <boutil@debian.org>
To: debian-publicity@lists.debian.org
Cc: Thomas Blein <tblein@tblein.eu>
Subject: help wanted for DPNhtml2mail.pl: deprecated encoding pragma with perl 5.26
Message-ID: <20171211134408.GA761@shiraz>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22)

Hi,

When preparing the announcement email for the point releases this
weekend, I encountered an issue with the script

	scripts/DPNhtml2mail.pl 

in the dpn git repository of the team.
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/publicity/dpn.git/tree/scripts/DPNhtml2mail.pl

An error is occuring on line 103, because of the deprecated pragma:
use encoding "utf-8";

This is now a fatal error since Perl 5.26.

A workaround I could use is to replace this line by:
use utf8;

and execute the script with PERL_UNICODE=S environment variable.

However, I am not sure it is the best way to handle this.
Does anybody know how to solve this?

Thanks in advance.

Cédric





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