Bug#320406: Unicode::MapUTF8 does not handle one byte BIG5 characters properly

[Don Armstrong]

Package: libunicode-maputf8-perl
Severity: normal
Version: 1.09-6

Unicode::MapUTF8 fails to handle one byte BIG5 characters properly;

FE:

$ perl -MUnicode::MapUTF8=to_utf8,utf8_supported_charset\ 
  -le 'print to_utf8(-string=>q(testing 1 2 3), -charset=>q(BIG5)), utf8_supported_charset(q(BIG5))';
1

This is leading to the behavoir currently shown in
http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=204514

[This is upstream bug http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=5385]


Don Armstrong

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