QUOTED_MESSAGE:
> Hi all!
>
> This is a request for help - it seems that perl 5.8.x
> breaks Anomy in certain cases when handling 8bit data,
> because of the Unicode support.
>
> I would very much appreciate it if someone out there
> with 5.8.x and reasonable perl experience could let me know
> if:
> a) the test cases fail and
>
> b) if it is there is some simple way to
> tell perl 5.8 to revert to 5.6
> Unicode
> behavior?
>
> Any feedback would be most appreciated.
>
>
> Ron - this appears to be what is causing your problem, I
> don't have a solution at the moment, hopefully someone on
> the list can help?
>
>
> On 2003-05-05, 10:36:29 (-0400), Ron
> wrote:
[SNIP]
> [snip]
Try the following:
1) It sounds like Ron is using RedHat. Other Linux / Unix distros may
suffer from this also. Check the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file. It was
changed in RedHat 8 and higher and broke a bunch of stuff. This policy
of breaking existing software or dumping support for older software in
favor of beta or alpha code is why I no longer use RedHat (see mod_perl
for Apache 2 which is not even done yet).
The i18n file includes a new utf8 LANG definition. This wreaks havoc
with a lot of Perl scripts. I changed mine to LANG="en_US", rebooted
and everything started working again.
2) Since you will probably have to support utf8 mail, you need to be
careful to not exclude it. Careful use of the "use bytes;" and "use
utf8;" pragmas can alleviate some of the problems described above.