On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 11:38, Jonathan Rawle wrote: > This happens very occasionally with makefiles written in Perl. The simplest > solution is to do > export LANG=C > before executing the script. > > > I don't think this is a bug in perl. As such why the insistence that > > UTF-8 be the default? What does this really buy? > > > > > > Any chance of getting this changed in future releases? > > UTF-8 is the standard now, other operating systems included. It allows you > to read documents written in a variety of different languages - any > language in fact. In RH8 unicode support was a mess, but now it's near > perfect with very few applications not supporting it. > > If you find it a pain, by all means change your /etc/sysconfig/i18n, but in > my opinion at least UTF8 should be the default. > > > Jonathan OK, so given that this is the "future", does this indicate that the perl program is written incorrectly? There is obviously a problem and I am trying to understand where it is. Specifying LANG=C or changing the i18n file seem like workarounds to me not real solutions, particularly since UTF-8 is the defacto standard now. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx alimony, n: Having an ex you can bank on.
