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mb-0.63

Changes for version 0.63 - 2026-06-14

  • fix t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm: ok() now has prototype ($;$) so that a failing regex match passed inline (e.g. ok($text =~ /pat/, "label")) is evaluated in scalar context. Without the prototype, a no-capture regex failure returns an empty list in list context, causing the label string to land in the first argument and the test to silently pass. This masked all P10 failures for t/9xxx test files (9 false passes per run).
  • fix t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm: add BEGIN { pop @INC if $INC[-1] eq '.' } CVE-2016-1238 mitigation (P12 guard was missing from the file).
  • fix t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm: add $VERSION = $VERSION self-assign (P10 guard was missing from the file).
  • fix t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm: check_B() B4 regex now also matches 'VERSION' => q{x.xx} and "VERSION" => q{x.xx} forms used in ina@CPAN Makefile.PL files (the old pattern matched only single- or double-quoted values, so B4 always failed for this distribution).
  • fix t/9001-load.t, t/9010-encoding.t, t/9020-perl5compat.t, t/9025-perl542compat.t, t/9030-distribution.t, t/9040-style.t, t/9050-pod.t, t/9060-readme.t, t/9080-cheatsheets.t: add use vars qw($VERSION); $VERSION = $VERSION; to each file so that P10 ($VERSION self-assign) is satisfied when t/9020-perl5compat.t scans the t/9xxx test files themselves.
  • fix lib/mb.pm: _open_r() now prepends "< " read-mode prefix, matching _open_w()/_open_a(). The old 2-arg open($fh,$_[0]) misparsed filenames ending in '|' (a legal MBCS trail byte 0x7C in Shift_JIS/EUC/GBK etc.) as a pipe/command open. Works on Perl 5.005_03 and all later versions.
  • fix pmake.bat: _dist_check_sources() now scopes selfcheck targets to match t/9020-perl5compat.t and t/9040-style.t. The multibyte transpiler core (lib/mb.pm) and the t/NNNN fixtures (non-t/9xxx) are excluded from the P1-P12 / C1 / K1-K3 house-style scans (they intentionally carry post-5.005_03 tokens and non-US-ASCII bytes as transformation data); t/lib/*.pm added to targets. Fixes 212 spurious 'pmake dist' FAILs.
  • fix t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm: check_C() again honours the caller's utf8_ok option (the 0.63 rewrite dropped it, so lib/mb.pm and the t/[1-8]xxx MBCS fixtures all false-failed C1 -- 106 spurious FAILs in t/9030). _find_pm_t() now returns a list instead of taking a \@out-param, so the module no longer violates its own K2 rule (1 FAIL in t/9040).
  • add eg/mb_length.pl: minimal US-ASCII, 5.005_03-clean usage example (satisfies the new check_F F1 "eg/*.pl exists"); registered in MANIFEST.

Documentation

SECURITY.md

Modules

mb
Can easy script in Big5, Big5-HKSCS, GBK, Sjis(also CP932), UHC, UTF-8, ...

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