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Re: Perl in a UTF-8 locale



I have a problem here with Perl v5.8.0 on Red Hat 9. Simplified, my
script looks like this:

while (<>) {
   s/ĉ/cx/g;
   print;
}

This works with older versions of Perl, and it works in the C locale,
but it doesn't work here in a UTF-8 locale. I tried putting stuff like
"use bytes" or "no utf8" or "no locale", but it didn't help.

Can anyone suggest a good solution, ideally one that is portable
between different locales and different versions of Perl?


I use perl on redhat 9, and I now think that auto-translated input is the dumbest idea ever!!!!
Things would be infinitely simpler if perl defaulted to pure binary i/o, imo.

Anyway, Ive had strange problems with perl in UTF-8 locales, and this is what I had to do:
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8" ;
binmode STDIN, ":utf8";

Regexps and things work, but invalid utf-8 sequences might still trip it up.



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