# in utf-8 thanks to "binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'" at beginning
sub to_utf8 {
my $str = shift;
- my $res;
- eval { $res = decode_utf8($str, Encode::FB_CROAK); };
- if (defined $res) {
- return $res;
+ if (utf8::valid($str)) {
+ utf8::decode($str);
+ return $str;
} else {
return decode($fallback_encoding, $str, Encode::FB_DEFAULT);
}