Re: UTF-8 support on Windows and Linux

I don't believe I have experienced this.. care to send a (minimal)
script to duplicate this? 

Cheers,
Kevin

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:22:56PM +0200, Gregor Chrupala ([email protected]) said something similar to:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am using perl5.6.1 both on Windows 2000 and Mandrake Linux 8.1.
> On Windows the UTF-8 strings are handled in a reasonable manner, that is
> length() returns the number of characters and /./ matches a single
> character. On Linux though, length seems to return the byte length of the
> string, and /./ fails to match characters over 127. This happens even if I
> use a UTF-8 locale.
> How come?
> What can I do about it? Is anybody experiencing similar problems on Linux?
> 
> Gregor

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