On Thu,18.Dec.08, 21:04:22, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu,18.Dec.08, 10:06:57, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
>
> > Hmm, there was an ancient version of MIME::Lite embedded in the
> > repositry. I've updated it now, but I doubt it makes any difference...
> >
> > I also tried with sid just now and it works perfectly here (both with
> > the old and new MIME::Lite).
>
> But why does the patch work (and what does encode() even do)?
Maybe this is related (from http://perldoc.perl.org/Encode.html)?
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| CAVEAT: When you run $octets = encode("utf8", $string) , then $octets
| may not be equal to $string. Though they both contain the same data, the
| UTF8 flag for $octets is always off. When you encode anything, UTF8 flag
| of the result is always off, even when it contains completely valid utf8
| string. See "The UTF8 flag" below.
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Regards,
Andrei
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