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 availab
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
woul
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"
> 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 menti
> 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 si
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, recentl
"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
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 work
