perl and UTF-8

[J. Erik Hemdal]

> I finally signed up for bugzilla and found this reference:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112339
> 
> sounds like they have some patches for the perl package to 
> fix this problem but they have not been applied or back 
> ported to previous versions.  No indication on when this will 
> be included.
> 
> Looks like a general problem with perl regex under UTF-8. 
> 

Thanks Scot, for the clarification.  That's indeed ugly.  Does building
your own perl from "official" source help?  I've tried this in the past,
and found the builds to be clean and straightforward...although I've
never gone looking for this trouble in particular.  I will try a
rebuild, and if I get an answer I'll post back.

This sounds as though missing 

use utf8;  # and

binmode (FH, ":utf8"); 

isn't the problem here.