perl and UTF-8

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 13:48 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> does not appear to be getting much visibility.  The first time I ran
> into this it took some digging to find the workaround.  Now it is almost
> the first thing I do on a new system since I am almost assured of having
> a problem with it.  
>
> And leaves me wondering if UTF-8 is the standard method from now on what
> will the workaround break when it is applied to a system?  So far I have
> not seen any problems on my systems but someone else that needs that
> option may be out of luck.

Unfortunately, too many people seem focused into offering the (on the
long run) bad workaround of changing LC instead of helping to fix the
unicode bugs :|

They don't seem to understand it's a lot worse to have to deal with lots
of (potentially unknown) encodings.

Rui
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