in reply to Re: utf8, locale and regexp
in thread utf8, locale and regexp

I need the use encoding 'utf8' plumbering to make CGI and CGI::FastTemplate work properly with utf8 pages. I need the locale support since I'm using my locale collation. But: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use utf8;
use encoding 'utf8';

my $test = "État";
my $test2 = "É";
if ($test =~ /$test2/) {print "$test matches $test2\n"} else {print "d
+oes not matches\n"}

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does not work either. use encoding 'utf8'; seems enought to screw the regexp engine.

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Re^3: utf8, locale and regexp
by Joost (Canon) on Apr 10, 2007 at 15:51 UTC
    I need the use encoding 'utf8' plumbering to make CGI and CGI::FastTemplate work properly with utf8 pages.
    As I pointed out above, there should be no need to use either utf8 or encoding "utf8" if your code and string literals are not utf-8 encoded - if all the code opens the template files with the right settings.

    I'm going to blame CGI::FastTemplate, since I highly doubt it opens unicode templates using the utf-8 layer. If it did there would be no need to use any of the encoding modules. 

    use utf8;
use encoding 'utf8';

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    There should be no need to use encoding "utf8" when you already do a use "utf8"; As I said above. In fact they seem to break each other. As far as I know "use utf8" is the more standard of the two. If you want to have utf8-encoded scripts, you should probably use (only) utf8;.

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