Email::Store::Attachment - my losing battle
Matt Lawrence
matt.lawrence at virgin.net
Fri Dec 1 11:04:13 GMT 2006
Toby Corkindale wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:42:04PM +0000, Christopher Jones wrote:
>
>> Should you be using binmode?
>>
>
> Isn't binmode meaningless on non-DOS machines?
>
No. binmode changes the PerlIO layer(s) in use on a filehandle, so it
can be used on any machine for reading different encodings and line-endings.
In this case, setting binmode STDIN, ':bytes' would ensure that incoming
data was *not* flagged as unicode.
Matt
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