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authorKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2012-11-01 12:06:32 -0600
committerKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2012-11-11 10:11:34 -0700
commit107160e2175acf35e27ea7b7af0c700f994f5437 (patch)
tree6766127186190810ec6eed356bcc2bbdd9f70c6b /pod
parentb6ba113734f2321504b9a5e58f1b107f427927a3 (diff)
downloadperl-107160e2175acf35e27ea7b7af0c700f994f5437.tar.gz
toke.c: Fail on malformed UTF-8 in \N{} input
The handler for \N{} can be user-supplied and charnames itself shouldn't have to worry about malformed input. This changes toke.c to check for malformed input before calling the \N{} handler.
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diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 0f98ee835d..ba30c179b5 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -2702,6 +2702,14 @@ message.
See also L<Encode/"Handling Malformed Data">.
+=item Malformed UTF-8 character immediately after '%s'
+
+(F) You said C<use utf8>, but the program file doesn't comply with UTF-8
+encoding rules. The message prints out the properly encoded characters
+just before the first bad one. If C<utf8> warnings are enabled, a
+warning is generated that gives more details about the type of
+malformation.
+
=item Malformed UTF-8 returned by \N
(F) The charnames handler returned malformed UTF-8.