Perl utf8

[Evan Martin]

On 11/21/05, Dave Evans <memcached-list-20050609 at djce.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 04:52:33PM -0800, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > Actually that sounds like exactly the wrong way to fix the problem.
>
> Fair enough; I was forgetting that the module already includes the Storable
> logic (that is, I was thinking of Cache::Memcached as a simple byte storage
> system).  I'm still curious to know more about why (encode|decode)_utf8 didn't
> work for the original poster.

Other data (arrays, etc.) will be munged into binary data by Storable.
 I'd imagine a utf-8 mode socket would complain if you send random
byte sequences over it.