On Tue 25 Feb 2003 10:27, Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:41:54PM -0500, Rudy Lippan wrote: > > > > Tim, > > > > I was about to check in a UTF-8 patch for DBD::Pg when I realized that I > > did not know when perl got unicode support. I know that 5.8 has support > > and that 5.6 has some unicode support, but I do not know about 5005. So > > what is the min. version of perl that you want DBD drivers to support, > > 5.005 or 5.6? > > 5.6. I've ben warning about 5.5 being desupported for some time now > and expect to formally do that in a release or two. > > > If 5005, does it have unicode support or should the unicode > > functions be #ifdefed out? And along the same lines, is unicode support in > > 5.6 stable enough to be used by the DBDs? > > Probably, but I've never had to dig into it.
IMHO the first perl that had Unicode that was stable enough *and* reliable and had reasonable DWIM levels was 5.7.3 (and 5.8.0) Unicode support was my main incentive to bump all production perls (also with customer sites) to 5.8.0 (in which I also included the defined-or patches) -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0 & 632 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2, AIX 4.3, WinNT 4, Win2K pro & WinCE 2.11 often with Tk800.024 &/| DBD-Unify ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/
