in reply to Unicode and locales

The ActiveState Beta 1 is now available here. It may not be good enough for production purposes yet, you'd have to read the forums, but it would give you chance to try it out and get you stuff ready for the stable version.

Nah! You're thinking of Simon Templar, originally played (on UKTV) by Roger Moore and later by Ian Ogilvy

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom