perl and UTF-8

[Jonathan Rawle]

Scot L. Harris wrote:

> OK, so given that this is the "future", does this indicate that the perl
> program is written incorrectly?  There is obviously a problem and I am
> trying to understand where it is.
> 
> Specifying LANG=C or changing the i18n file seem like workarounds to me
> not real solutions, particularly since UTF-8 is the defacto standard
> now.
> 

People appear to think this is a bug in the RH version of perl. See:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87682

Hopefully it'll get fixed eventually, as most other utf8 issues have.

Jonathan