On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had this problem with RH9 also ... seems that perl's Unicode and > RH9's Unicode support got all tangled up. I fixed it by changing > LANG=en_US in my bashrc to just 'LANG='. I read that somewhere ... > anyway it works! I think perl downgraded it's unicode for 5.8.1 because > of this. I can't remember it's a while since I researched it. You might > want to search perl port.
I think 5.8.0 assumed that if the locale was something like "en_US-UTF8", that you wanted UTF8 everywhere, but 5.8.1 no longer looks at the locale to determine this. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/