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Thanks for this, AFAIK we are using utf8 functions correctly. However, it is very likely that somewhere in 200K lines of perl a simple string concat is happening between a UTF8 string and a non-UTF8 string. My idea is to try to trap this so we can find it. The only way I can think of doing is to overload the concat operator. I'm also keen to know if it is possible. We tried this but it does not work...

use strict;

package UNIVERSAL;

use overload "." => \&concat;


sub concat {
    my ($a, $b) = @_;
    return join "XXX", $a, $b;

}


package Foo;

my $thing = "cat" . "dog";

print "\n\n\n$thing\n\n\n";
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This produces catdog

In reply to Re^2: utf8 is_valid on concat by threedaygoaty
in thread utf8 is_valid on concat by threedaygoaty

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