2 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1eb993f..593b102 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+- genhdlist2:
+  o use utf8:: functions instead of Encode
+    (to be able to work with only perl base modules)
+
 Version 5.4 - 26 February 2008, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux
 
 - parsehdlist, rpm2header:
diff --git a/genhdlist2 b/genhdlist2
index cc1a682..d42158d 100644
--- a/genhdlist2
+++ b/genhdlist2
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 use URPM;
 use MDV::Packdrakeng;
 use Getopt::Long;
-use Encode;
 
 main();
 
@@ -237,14 +236,16 @@ sub close_xml {
 }
 
 sub ensure_utf8 {
-    my ($s) = @_;
-    
-    Encode::_utf8_on($s); #- this is done on the copy
-    if (!Encode::is_utf8($s, 1)) {
-	Encode::_utf8_off($_[0]);
-	Encode::from_to($_[0], 'iso-8859-15', 'utf8');
+    if (utf8::is_utf8($_[0])) {
+	utf8::valid($_[0]) and return;
+
+	utf8::encode($_[0]); #- disable utf8 flag
+	utf8::upgrade($_[0]);
+    } else {
+	utf8::decode($_[0]); #- try to set utf8 flag
+	utf8::valid($_[0]) and return;
+	warn "do not know what to with $_[0]\n";
     }
-    Encode::_utf8_on($_[0]); #- now we know it is valid utf8
 }
 
 sub encode_xml {