I have been going cross-eyed over this for the last hour or so. Each time I re-read the Doc on use locale; I come up with a different opinion of how this code snippit should work. 
$x = "\x{9e}";      # A-acute accent
{
    use local;
    ($x =~ /a..zA..Z/) ? print "true\n" : print "not true\n";
}

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The code I am debugging takes a list of words and sorts them "alphabetically". Most of the time it works as expected, but now we are starting to get a few French-Canadian words in the corpus and "A accent-egu"(I thinks that's right, I am not a Francophone) falls at the end of the 'normal' alphabet (following Z), rather than sorting between 'A' and 'B' where I am told it should.

I initially looked at the code and said "/self, it's a locale issue" and started reading the Doc on the 'locale' pragma. Three cups of coffee later, I still do understand why I'm not getting the 'correct' sort. I am obviously missing something basic here, but what?

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In reply to Does 'use locale' Change What Is Considered To Be 'alphabetical order'? by Old_Gray_Bear

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