So, I'm trying (for whatever reason) to split a string into its component characters. This is what I do:

my @letters = split //, @text

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But there are some non-ASCII characters (quite a variety, actually) in the text, so in the code, there are the following lines:

use locale;
use POSIX qw(locale_h);
use POSIX;

use Encode;

my $old_lcall = setlocale(LC_ALL);
my $old_ctype = setlocale(LC_CTYPE);
setlocale(LC_ALL,"cs_CZ.utf8");
setlocale(LC_CTYPE,"cs_CZ.utf8");

# ...the $text variable has also been encoded as UTF-8 (the 
# hyphenated version), using the encode function provided 
# by use Encode;

my @letters = split //, $text;

# and at the end of the code, set the locales back:
setlocale(LC_ALL, $old_lcall);
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, $old_ctype);

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Looking at the output, split reads the string in $text byte-by-byte (while sort, for example, works as it should under the locale). So the question is, o wise Perl monks, how do I get split to obey the locale as well?

In reply to Split is ignoring locale settings by Anonymous Monk

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