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Expand Up @@ -4668,6 +4668,15 @@ Perl_get_win32_message_utf8ness(pTHX_ const char * string)

# ifdef USE_LOCALE_CTYPE

/* We don't know the locale utf8ness here, and not even the locale itself.
* Since Windows uses a different mechanism to specify message language
* output than the locale system, it is going to be problematic deciding
* if we are to store it as UTF-8 or not. By specifying LOCALE_IS_UTF8, we
* are telling the called function to return true iff the string has
* non-ASCII characters in it that are all syntactically UTF-8. We are
* thus relying on the fact that a string that is syntactically valid UTF-8
* is likely to be UTF-8. Should this ever cause problems, this function
* could be replaced by something more Windows-specific */
return get_locale_string_utf8ness_i(string, LOCALE_IS_UTF8,
NULL, LC_CTYPE_INDEX_);
# else
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