On Tuesday 11 February 2003 17:54, Dirk Koopman wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 16:50, Roger Horne wrote: > > On Tue 11 Feb, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > > > Hrm, perl doesn't use UTF-8 for it's internal representation of > > > > strings ? > > > > > > I may be misremembering things somewhat. The cloudy things I remember > > > are that the version of perl shipped with RH8 uses a slightly geb0rken > > > 16 bit implementation (who is the guy who is developing it? ISTR he's > > > thrown out or totally changed how it works) the cripples performance. > > > If you unset LANG perl goes a lot quicker. > > [snipetty snip] > > Methinks there is much smelly fish in Perl 5.8.0 UTF implementation and > also in RH8.0's internationalisation stuff / port of perl. A standard > 'cure' seems to be to rename /etc/sysconfig/i18n to something else (eg > i18n.orig) and then restart the machine. > > Suddenly things like man pages start to come out in something > approaching english (ie without a load accented a's instead of <tab> and > stuff) and your perl goes a lot faster.
The most mentioned work around on the KDE lists (where this problem screws up the build process) is to 'export LANG=C' before running things. The problem is due to LANG defaulting to en_US.UTF or some such thing in RH8. This can be changed permanently by altering /etc/sysconfig/i18n as Dirk mentioned. Cheers, Sean /me waves to the crowd as a newbie in this here town! -- Sean McGlynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where's hindsight when you need it?
