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I'm another lost soul on 5.6.1 until 5.8.1 comes out to solve the UTC problems in 5.8.0

Are the "UTC problems in 5.8.0" really so bad? For sure, 5.8.1 will fix bunch of things, but these are a fairly small and abstruse set, compared to the set of things that 5.8.0 does right and 5.6.1 doesn't do at all (or does wrong).

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by esh (Pilgrim) on Aug 19, 2003 at 05:27 UTC
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    Unfortunately, our users kept hitting a UTF-8 problem on our web site which made it unusable (even though we are not using UTF anywhere in our code). Everything works smoothly on 5.6.1.

    We tried very hard with help from the community to solve the problems or find workarounds, but were eventually told that this specific problem would be fixed in the next release.

    We wait patiently and eagerly.

    Update: s/UTC/UTF/ per liz.

    -- Eric Hammond

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      UTC-8? You mean UTF-8?

      Are you running Red Hat? Then your problems may be solved by ensuring the the environment is not forcing Unicode on Perl. If I remember correctly, this was done with: 

      LC_LANG=C
      but please check out Google Groups for this.

      Liz

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        Yep, RedHat 8 and we tried all sorts of LC_LANG and related workarounds that worked for other people having seemingly similar problems. At this point, I don't care to try to solve the problem in 5.8.0. We'll just wait for 5.8.1.

        -- Eric Hammond

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