I'd be grateful if you could include a minimal example of code that shows this behavior. I'm in an environment where different OS's on the local network are using 5.8.0, 5.8.1 and 5.8.5; if we haven't seen this "wide character in subroutine entry" warning yet, we probably will soon... There's a chance that it might not have anything to do with enabling wide characters on file handles (since the message doesn't mention file handles or i/o).

But after all, it is just a warning, and Perl is most likely doing "The Right Thing", despite complaining about it. This sort of warning about wide characters is Perl's way of saying "if you weren't already aware of this condition, you probably should be, just in case it might alter some assumptions you may have been making about your data..."

In reply to Re: Encode module, wide character by graff
in thread Encode module, wide character by Hank

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