It strikes me as odd that of 37 CPAN Testers' reports, 7 passed OK and they are all 5.8.8. Those failed reports for 5.8.8 are because I did not declare Test::Exception as a pre-requisite.

Moreover, the module is heavy on regexes. It is also really odd that this is the only one affected, and only one half of it! Out of more than 28K words, only 15 fail... I wouldn't think this is related to encoding.

Since almut has fixed the module by declaring the encoding, I think that grinder's advice of moving to UTF-8 and declaring so is the most general solution. I have done it in my local copy of the module and the test suite still passes OK under my Perl 5.8.8 on Linux.

Update:7 passes and 28 fails.

In reply to Re: RegExp breaks in Perl 5.10 by jfraire
in thread RegExp breaks in Perl 5.10 by jfraire

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