| Subject: | XML::Atom turns off utf8 flag for valid, decoded utf8 document |
Hello,
I find the XML::Atom module very useful, and it has saved me a lot of
time! Thank you.
However - At numerous places in XML::Atom::Thing, Encode::_utf8_off is
called on a field of an Atom entry. For example, in get, getlist and as_xml.
This seems to be done without regard to how the utf8 flag was set. In my
case, my code very carefully sniffs the atom encoding (using the module
HTML::Encoding, which includes XML support) and then calls
Encode::decode to convert to utf-8 and set the utf8 flag, all *before* I
parse the feed with XML::Atom (via XML::Feed).
After I get the entry back from XML::Atom, I have to manually turn the
flag back on. I do not understand this behavior of the module. If I
decode the whole XML document, I should not have to re-decode each entry.