* Greg Sabino Mullane: >> As just one datapoint: this change will cause havoc in our systems. >> This might be rather unusual (and we we can certainly deal with it in >> some way), but I wonder if others will face similar problems. > > Well, that's why this will be a major version jump with lots of > warnings. Can you describe how your system runs currently and how > it will break, so we have an idea of at least one real system and > can thus think of ways to reduce the upgrade pain?
We have libraries further down the path which bail out when they are confronted with UTF-8 strings. These libraries are not UTF-8 ready (they assume that length($string) returns the number of bytes that would be written by print etc.), and this is something we'd need to fix anyway. -- Florian Weimer <fwei...@bfk.de> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99
