Unicode is 20++ years old and still a problem
Just did a quick hack to read out product data from an old shop site and import it into a new one:
- wget -r
- File::Find
- Mojo::Dom for parsing
- Text::CSV::Slurp for the result
After 11 minutes running for 14 K pages I experienced the bad surprise:
One file had non-ASCII characters in its name and File::Find does not use char-mode. I forgot about this. Text::CSV::Slurp crashed.
Why the hell are there so many CPAN modules still ignoring Unicode?
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