If it were just me, that would be easy. But stating on an FAQ
page 'use Perl 5.8.1 or later' for something that worked
probably even in Perl 4 doesn't look like a good idea.
Perl 4? And here I was being afraid that getting 5.6 to work right
would
be tricky... :-) I think we need to define work
5.00503, 5.6.x and 5.8.x. I don't think that the tricks you need to
program around the Unicode cliffs through perl versions are collected
in a document.
I think now that people have had time to Unicodify their applications
with 5.8.x, starting to collect the tricks required and found useful
would
Martin Duerst wrote:
in 5.6 and 5.8, but _in_principle_ the bytes pragma should tell Perl in
both 5.6 and 5.8 that I want bytes, darn it.
But you still get into problem when you pass UTF-8 flagged variables to
legacy modules without the pragma.
Yes, that seems to do the job. But is this
Dear Perl Unicode experts,
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlunicode.html says:
In future, Perl-level operations will be expected to work with characters
rather than bytes.
I very much appreciate all your hard work on the internationalization of Perl.
However, recently I have been
In future, Perl-level operations will be expected to work with
characters rather than bytes.
I very much appreciate all your hard work on the internationalization
of Perl.
However, recently I have been working on some things that let me think
that the above statement, if taken directly, may be
Hello Jarkko,
Many thanks for your very quick answer.
At 00:31 04/01/03 +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
In future, Perl-level operations will be expected to work with
characters rather than bytes.
I very much appreciate all your hard work on the internationalization of
Perl.
However, recently
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:17:13 -0500, Martin Duerst [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Jungshik has also reported that
it fails with Perl 5.8.0 with an UTF-8 locale.
Perl 5.8.0 was very broken with UTF-8 locales since it auto-PERL_UNICODEd.
We saw (keep seeing) a lot of that since RedHat 8 and 9
if (eval use bytes;) { use bytes; }
That would be
use if $] = 5.006, bytes;
But you would have to make sure that if.pm is available, no option IMO.
I think the was used in AxKit by the Matt/axkit-dev folks was to put
this line
$INC{ bytes.pm }++ if $] 5.006;
before any mention of
