Bug#835988: perl: EU::MM outputs UTF8 strings on an ASCII filehandle in non-UTF8 locales

[Niko Tyni]

Control: found -1 5.24.0-1

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:44:02PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> - ExtUtils::MakeMaker has a problem in non-UTF8 locales where it can
>   write UTF8 metadata from for instance META.yml into Makefile through an
>   ASCII-only file handle, causing the ""\x{00c2}" does not map to ascii"
>   warnings. This is [rt.cpan.org #106461]; cloning a separate bug for it.


This still happens with 5.24 in experimental, though the
sv_setpvn() crash is gone or hiding.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org