Re: Re: Re: Return values from package methods

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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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Re: Re: Re: Re: Return values from package methods by liz (Monsignor) on Aug 19, 2003 at 06:56 UTC
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	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Return values from package methods by esh (Pilgrim) on Aug 19, 2003 at 07:29 UTC
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	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Return values from package methods by liz (Monsignor) on Aug 19, 2003 at 07:37 UTC
Then you might want to try out the latest (yesterday's) 5.8.1-tobe snapshot at Jarkko's place. If you still have problems with that release, there may be time still to fix it. If it solves the problem for you, you can be assured that 5.8.1 will most likely work for you also. Liz	[reply]