Bug #121112 for Time-Duration-es: suggest wide chars

Thu Apr 13 23:52:55 2017 user42_kevin [...] yahoo.com.au - Ticket created

Subject:	suggest wide chars
Date:	Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:49:03 +1000
To:	bug-Time-Duration-es [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Kevin Ryde <user42_kevin [...] yahoo.com.au>

It seems Time::Duration::es::duration() gives byte strings of utf8. use Time::Duration::es; my $str = Time::Duration::es::duration(100000); print "$str\n"; print utf8::is_utf8($str) ? "wide\n" : "bytes\n"; => "bytes" It could be desirable to give perl wide chars ready for character manipulation, or output in a different encoding. That might be as easy as "use utf8" at the start of the source (if you're happy to be perl 5.8 up or some such new enough version).

Thu Apr 27 05:41:47 2017 BIAFRA [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Half of Time::Duration::* use bytes and the other half use wide chars. Currently I'm using T::D::es with Time::Duration::Locale. Let me check if it breaks "my system". :-)

Thu Apr 27 05:41:48 2017 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Apr 28 02:31:03 2017 user42_kevin [...] yahoo.com.au - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #121112] suggest wide chars
Date:	Fri, 28 Apr 2017 16:28:20 +1000
To:	"Biafra via RT" <bug-Time-Duration-es [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	Kevin Ryde <user42_kevin [...] yahoo.com.au>

"Biafra via RT" <bug-Time-Duration-es@rt.cpan.org> writes: Show quoted text

> > Half of Time::Duration::* use bytes and the other half use wide chars.

Alas, yes. If you want bytes then it could be latin1, as I thought that was the auto-upgrade in perl, somewhere, but not quite certain.