ensure utf8::encode() normalises its arg

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22439

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/sv.c b/sv.c
index dd15758d93..ed6051a56b 100644
--- a/sv.c
+++ b/sv.c
@@ -3470,13 +3470,13 @@ Perl_sv_utf8_upgrade_flags(pTHX_ register SV *sv, I32 flags)
 	     return len;
     }
 
-    if (SvUTF8(sv))
-	return SvCUR(sv);
-
     if (SvIsCOW(sv)) {
         sv_force_normal_flags(sv, 0);
     }
 
+    if (SvUTF8(sv))
+	return SvCUR(sv);
+
     if (PL_encoding && !(flags & SV_UTF8_NO_ENCODING))
         sv_recode_to_utf8(sv, PL_encoding);
     else { /* Assume Latin-1/EBCDIC */