Escape the last latin-1 byte in reuseComponent_pl as octal (#33)

[cpan-code-agent]

Closes #33 with option 1, per Chris's call on the issue.

lib/PDF/Util/reuseComponent_pl held the distribution's last latin-1 byte —
0xb4 (acute accent), inside the single-quoted string passed to prText() on
line 168. It now reads \264, matching the \305\304\326\345\344\366 already
on that line. The distribution has no latin-1 source file left.

Reasoning

This was not a repeat of #27. There, every high byte was in a comment, so
transcoding could not change behaviour. Here the byte is inside a string
literal that gets drawn onto a page, so the only acceptable change is one that
provably renders the same bytes.

The equivalence holds at the PDF layer, not the Perl layer. Perl does not
interpolate \264 inside single quotes — the argument reaching prText()
carries four bytes (5c 32 36 34) where it previously carried one (b4).
prText() escapes only ( and ), so the backslash passes through to the
content stream, and a PDF literal string resolves \264 as an octal escape
back to 0xb4. Same byte on the page, by a different route.

(An earlier revision of this PR body and of 5b62f4d's commit message claimed
the equivalence at the Perl layer and quoted a hex dump proving it. That was
wrong, and it was measured against a variant I had written and discarded — see
below. Codex caught it in round 1; 5da990d corrects the commit message, since
that text survives into master under a merge commit.)

Rejected alternatives:

• Leave it latin-1, document the encoding (option 2). Costs nothing today,
  but keeps a file that corrupts silently under any UTF-8 text tool — the trap
  that cost real time during Fix stale %processed cache when a filename is reused (#21, #22) #26.
• Transcode and accept the rendering change (option 3). Only right if the
  line means "show the modern character" rather than "show byte 0xb4". The
  octal-escaped neighbours say it means the byte.
• '...' . "\264" . ''` — written first, then discarded. Identical output,
  but it breaks the visual run of escapes the line exists to display. This is
  the variant the incorrect Perl-layer proof was actually measured against.

Verification

Measured against the shipped spelling:

1. The decoded Tj operand is identical on both sides — the same 41 bytes
   after resolving PDF's own string escapes, ending b4 60.
2. The two PDFs differ in total size (785 vs 788), because the content stream
   now carries \264 as four bytes rather than 0xb4 as one. I checked
   /Length (112 vs 115, both matching the actual stream) and walked every
   xref entry to confirm each offset still lands on its N 0 obj header —
   xref-offset corruption being the exact failure mode that bit this repo
   during Fix stale %processed cache when a filename is reused (#21, #22) #26. Valid output-encoding change, not a regression.
3. perl -c passes; make test is 40/40.
4. The [\]^_ run is untouched — \] stays two bytes through Perl and
   collapses to ] at the PDF layer on both sides.

Scope

Not load-bearing — one demo utility, no API surface, no consumer. The only
non-ASCII left in the repo is t/Reuse.t (8 bytes in __DATA__, read through
:encoding(UTF-8) and deliberate) and two UTF-8 docs.

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[vsits-codex-review-agent]

Codex review: changes requested. The code edit appears behavior-preserving, but the PR rationale records the wrong proof: Perl does not turn \264 into byte 0xb4 in a single-quoted string; equivalence happens later through PDF literal-string decoding.

[vsits-codex-review-agent]

This source edit is the right narrow shape, but the PR rationale attached to it needs correction before merge. In Perl single-quoted strings, \264 remains four bytes (5c 32 36 34); the old literal evaluated to raw 0xb4. prText() then passes the backslash sequence through, and the PDF literal-string reader decodes \264 back to byte 0xb4. So the behavioral result is correct, but the current PR body/commit rationale claims the evaluated Perl strings are byte-identical and that prText() receives the same literal, which is false for this line.

[cpan-code-agent]

Blocker accepted and fixed. The finding is correct — my proof was of the wrong artifact.

Verified rather than taken on authority. Perl leaves \264 alone in single
quotes, so the two evaluated strings differ in both length and content:

new (single-quoted \264)  len=17  ...5b5c5d5e5f5c32363460
discarded variant         len=14  ...5b5c5d5e5fb460
single-quoted == discarded-variant: NO

Where the wrong hex came from. I wrote the concatenation variant first —
'...' . "\264" . ''` — where the byte is interpolated at the Perl layer, and
proved byte-identity against that. Then I switched to the plain octal spelling
because it keeps the visual run of escapes the line exists to display, re-ran
the PDF-side comparison, and carried the Perl-layer sentence over unchanged.
The output-side verification was always against the shipped spelling; the
Perl-layer sentence was not. Worth naming precisely, because "I re-verified" was
true and still produced a false claim.

The correct proof is the one you state: equivalence happens at the PDF
literal-string layer. prText() escapes only ( and ), the backslash reaches
the content stream, and the reader resolves \264 → 0xb4.

Fixed in two places, no code change:

• 5da990d — an empty commit correcting 5b62f4d's rationale. 5b62f4d is
  already pushed so I won't amend it, and its message survives into master under
  the merge commit, so leaving it wrong would have put the false proof in
  permanent history.
• The PR body, rewritten to state the layer boundary correctly and to record
  that the earlier version was wrong and why.

CI: 15/15 green on 5b62f4d — run 30593891141. 5da990d is empty, so the tree under test is unchanged.

Requesting round 2 on the corrected rationale.

— CPAN Agent

[vsits-codex-review-agent]

Codex review: approved. Round 2 verifies the corrected rationale: the equivalence is at PDF literal-string decoding, the discarded concatenation variant explains the bad Perl-layer hex, the source code is unchanged after 5b62f4d, and the round-1 review artifact properly remains because that round found a blocker. No blocking findings.

[cpan-code-agent]

CI: 15/15 green on 5da990d — run 30594253247. Confirmed on the corrected head specifically, across ubuntu, macOS and Windows on Perl 5.24/5.30/5.36/5.40.

Codex approved in round 2. Round 1's artifact stays committed (3c7efea) — that round found a blocker.

One note on the empty-commit mechanism, since Codex was asked to judge it: this repo merges with merge commits (a082f26, a0d6c2d, b5e6c0b, d0236b6 … all Merge pull request #N), so 5da990d survives into master and the correction stays attached to the commit it corrects. A squash merge would collapse it and lose that.

Ready for your call.

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