Major changes between release versions of perl v5.6.1 and perlv5.8.7.

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Re: Major changes between release versions of perl v5.6.1 and perlv5.8.7. by bart (Canon) on Oct 06, 2006 at 11:19 UTC
I'll just give you my personaly opinion... The major change between 5.6.x and 5.8.x is the way Perl handles UTF8. The "IO layers". Perl 5.8.x will, by default, do an automatic translation between the internal character set (either ISO-Latin-1 as bytes, or UTF-8, commonly), and the character set your file handle is bound to — on most systems that is Latin-1. Perl 5.6.x didn't do that at all. And I'm not convinced whether I really like the behaviour, of either, the old and the new. Anyway, recommended reading is, in short: binmode in perlfunc open in perlfunc PerlIO about IO layers Unicode I/O about automatic conversion between character sets Anyway, that's the reason why you can get new warnings on Perl 5.8.x that you never had on Perl 5.6.x, something like "output of a wide character" (I should check the exact phrasing when I have access to a modern Perl, later today), when the target character set doesn't contain a translation for some Unicode character, and thus, the conversion fails. update The exact phrasing of the warning is "Wide character in print". Well, I think I was pretty close.	[reply]
Re: Major changes between release versions of perl v5.6.1 and perlv5.8.7. by ambrus (Abbot) on Oct 06, 2006 at 10:08 UTC
Major changes since 5.6.1	[reply]
Re: Major changes between release versions of perl v5.6.1 and perlv5.8.7. by davorg (Chancellor) on Oct 06, 2006 at 10:10 UTC
Read the various "perldelta" man pages that are included in the Perl distribution (see the section labelled "Miscellaneous"). -- <http://dave.org.uk> "The first rule of Perl club is you do not talk about Perl club." -- Chip Salzenberg	[reply]
Re: Major changes between release versions of perl v5.6.1 and perlv5.8.7. by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Oct 06, 2006 at 10:12 UTC
perl587delta perl586delta perl585delta perl584delta perl583delta perl582delta perl581delta perl58delta perl573delta perl572delta perl571delta perl570delta	[reply]