See the ENVIRONMENT secion in perllocale, and maybe your local manpage for "locale". You might have to install extra locales you want to use (my system only has the "C" and "POSIX" locales, apparently). Basically you can set a couple of environment variables, and that will determine the locale your perl program will run under. Which locales are supported is system-dependent, I can see mine using "locale -a".

Hope this helps,
Joost.

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In reply to Re^3: ISO 8859-1 characters and \w \b etc. by Joost
in thread ISO 8859-1 characters and \w \b etc. by Melroch

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