I did not ask for opinions on my rationale
I thought since you posted this in public that you might want the public to respond. My bad, I guess.

But get ready because I'm going to make the same mistake again.

What ratio of Laotian or Thai users are developing new software on Windows XP? Or are they still targeting a linux kernel that predates the first release of Ubuntu? Because that's the era of perl 5.8.3. Today, P5P "officially" covers two stable releases according to perlpolicy; that's currently this year's 5.38.x release and perl 5.36.x from 2022. The perl toolchain folks (those behind core modules like CPAN.pm, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, etc.) have set their support window to 10 years which will put perl 5.20.x at the tail end of targeted support next summer. I imagine they've done their research as well.

Anyway, do as you please (as I have here) but watering down tests, cribbing snippets of code to avoid installing pure perl prerequisite modules, ignoring all the encoding work done in perl itself since 2004... in general, just making the maintenance and development of your module more complicated for a dev environment that might not exist anywhere in the world... is a choice. มันไม่มีอะไร...

In reply to Re^3: How to create and install a module compatible with both UTF8 and Perl 5.8.3 without using non-core modules? by SankoR
in thread How to create and install a module compatible with both UTF8 and Perl 5.8.3 without using non-core modules? by Polyglot

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