On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 09:36, Bart Schuller wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:34:48PM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > OK, from what I've heard from elsewhere Red Hat shipped a broken perl > > with RH9 - a build from CVS. Why oh why do we have to put up with this > > crap from Red Hat I don't know... > > It's not the perl they ship that causes problems for lots of people, > it's the default UTF-8 locales. > > Perl 5.8.0 interprets a UTF-8 locale as a signal to treat all file opens > as UTF-8, unless otherwise stated. This behaviour causes too many > problems, so will be disabled in 5.8.1.
Aha. A wise decision. > A workaround is to set your locale to something else, like en_US or even > C. I hope that fixes it for you. It would if I knew where to change my locale :-) > Otherwise, I know you don't want to > hear this, but AxKit works in Debian (and is packaged there). It could > be that you'd need debian unstable, but I experience less problems with > that than what I read about RedHat 9. Debian would be fine for running a server: this is my laptop and I only need to run servers when I go teaching courses where I demo them...as I need to do with AxKit in a few weeks, hence the desire to get it running (or be able to say that it won't work on X or Y platform). Thanks for the info. ///Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
