Re: [Soaplite-devel] CPAN RT #32952 (UTF8 Strings Not Marked as UTF8 If Base64 encoded)

[Scott W. <sc...@pe...>]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:52:39AM +0100, Martin Kutter wrote:
> There are two suggested resolutions:
> 
> 1. Don't serialize utf8-strings as base64binary.
> This only works in perls >= 5.8, as there's no way to detect utf8
> strings in perls before.
> 
> 2. Introduce a "utf8binary" type, which behaves as the base64binary,
> except that the utf8 flag is restored on deserialization.
> 
> I prefer 1), as there's no "utf8binary" type in the SOAP standard, and
> fixing it for perls before 5.8 is pretty useless (these can't handle
> utf8 data anyway)

Perhaps it becomes a package variable that can be set, and leave it
off by default so that people who upgrade won't break. Breaking things
is really bad.

  $SOAP::Lite::NO_SERIALIZE_UT8 = 1;

or something like that.

Scott
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