in reply to Portable way to require Perl 5.8.8

Works on 5.8+:

use v5.8.8;

Works on 5.6+:

use 5.008_008;

Works on 5.0+:

BEGIN { $] >= 5.008_008 or die("Need half-decent Unicode support. " . "Please use Perl 5.8.8 or higher\n"); }

I could be wrong as to when each started working.