From 4524ecf66bdc45722257e7179ee38fe57feedfb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bubnikv <bubnikv@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:08:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] by alexrj: Always convert strings to UTF-8 before passing
 them to XS

---
 xs/xsp/my.map | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xs/xsp/my.map b/xs/xsp/my.map
index 7fb501542..0234bb3fa 100644
--- a/xs/xsp/my.map
+++ b/xs/xsp/my.map
@@ -271,7 +271,9 @@ INPUT
 T_STD_STRING
     {
       size_t len;
-      const char * c = SvPV($arg, len);
+      // const char * c = SvPV($arg, len);
+      // Always convert strings to UTF-8 before passing them to XS
+      const char * c = SvPVutf8($arg, len);
       $var = std::string(c, len);
     }