Scot L. Harris wrote: > 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. > People appear to think this is a bug in the RH version of perl. See: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87682 Hopefully it'll get fixed eventually, as most other utf8 issues have. Jonathan