Re: [Soaplite-devel] UTF8 Strings Not Marked

[rich c. <ri...@lr...>]

> 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.

Doesn't something like

{eval{unpack('U0U', $_);};return $@;}

work on old perl versions, I seem to remember having something like that
working on some pretty old systems....