Re: UTF-8 support on Windows and Linux

> 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.

 Do you have 'use utf8;' in your script? After adding this I have not any
problems on Linux (SuSE Linux 7.3).

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