I just acquired a new Red Hat 8.0 Server w/ Perl 5.8.0. I am transitioning perl scripts over and encountered the following utf-8 problem/error when attempting to run a script that contains the module Date::Manip (a partial sample of the error sequence below):

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x78, immediately after start byte 0xf3) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Manip.pm line 6451.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x78, immediately after start byte 0xf3) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Manip.pm line 6451.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x6c, immediately after start byte 0xfa) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Manip.pm line 6452.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x6c, immediately after start byte 0xfa) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Manip.pm line 6452.
Malformed UTF-8 character (1 byte, need 3, after start byte 0xe3) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Manip.pm line 6460.


What do I need to do to get around/fix this in my script without actually having to break into the .pm module?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

In reply to Perl5.8.0/RH8/Date::Manip/UTF8 Problem by Anonymous Monk

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