Re: RedHat9 core

> > > Could you provide a sample test case and your used locales, if any?
> > 
> > Really good spot! Is locale. Now I can update my system!
...
> > 
> > I don't know how Perl support locale and utf8...
> 
> This is described in perlunicode(1).
> IIRC as of 5.6 locales were activated by calling
>   use locale;
>   setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> 
> In 5.8, Perl internally uses Unicode characters.  When user is in a
> UTF-8 locale, Perl assumes that input and output are UTF-8 encoded;
> otherwise previous behavior occurs.
> As wml::fmt::isolatin contains latin1 characters, Perl should complain
> that some characters are invalid.  But it complains only when those
> characters are used, and not read.
> 
> I could fix WML, but it will then require perl 5.8; and as Perl
> interaction with UTF-8 locales will change in 5.8.1, I am quite
> reluctant to perform this change now.
> 
> A trivial workaround is to rename wml into wml.real and create a
> simple shell script like:
>   #! /bin/sh
>   LC_ALL=C
>   LANG=C
>   unset LANGUAGE
>   export LC_ALL LANG
>   wml.real "$@"
> 
> BTW are you sure you need to call wml::fmt::isolatin?  It is pretty
> useless nowadays.

I found it still useful... However even wmk have problem with utf8 (it
hang), so is best to launch it with "LANG=it_IT wmk <options>" (I
usually use makefile with wmk so is simple to change)

Waiting for 5.8.1 seem a good idea. IMHO Perl shouldn't core...

freddy77


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