perl and UTF-8

[Scot L. Harris]

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 13:17, Jonathan Rawle wrote:
> 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
> 

Looks like this has been an outstanding issue for some time.  Hard to
tell if anyone is really looking at this problem from that report.

Hope they are as it is aggravating every time this comes up.

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Scot L. Harris
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