I am aware about utf8 in bugreport and in this case here. Cause "use utf8" makes more noise (adds warning "Wide character in print at...") and does not help, i let it out. So, in bug report i intentionally let "use utf8" out, cause my locale is UTF8. I find it being real bug, if i have utf8 locale and i say "use locale", perl does not follow this instruction in every possible way.

Btw, i find that using "use utf8" is a waste of good thing, if we use it as "when in code is something in utf8". "use utf8" should say: in this pragma any, all and everything you even can imagine, is utf8. Or "use locale" should spread such message, if coder want to be dependent from locale

Handling all kind of utf8 through lot of different things (open, use, locale, -C, binmode, special keys in regex) makes me always feel sick. Really. I am sorry, but through the 12 years i use Perl, i am just waited, when the unicode things settle down, being simple as that: "use utf8" and everything works. Or similar. Still i see hacks but no systematic solution.

Yesterday, before posting, i searched last nodes about this topic, and i found this node: 801876. I just hope, that i really misunderstood the point, but if UTF-8 defines something being digit (\d) or word character (\w), then should it be like that in perl too...

Nġnda, WK

In reply to Re^4: any use of 'use locale'? (source encoding) by wanradt
in thread any use of 'use locale'? by wanradt

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