> > First thanks for rc2! Long time no new release ;-( > The relase was ready for a long time, but I wanted to have the CGI tests in places and they behaved always a little different, with different Apache versions and OS...
> Now the 'bug' report ;-| > > I use UTF-8 since two weeks (and I REALLY like it! Everything > works much better than latin1) so I had to rename > epchar.c.min to epchar.c before compilation. > This results in make test failing in the fourth test (because > it checks escaping which the epchar.c.min doesn't do). > Yes, I know that. > I have a search page which uses a form to pass the search > string to the result page. > UTF-8 passed chars weren't converted to uppercase with uc(), > all other chars were... > After hours of reading perl docs about UTF-8 I found out that > vars have an UTF-8 yes/no flag (which seemes not to be set for $fdat). > Yes, Embperl should look at the headers of the posted data and as far as these information is available set the UTF-8 flag. > > It would be better for newbies if perl Makefile.pl asks for > UTF-8 and use epchar.c.min for the compile instead of epchar.c. > OR (which would be the best approach in my opinion): > Make it configurable (per virtual host?!). > Again I agree, but I have decided to first release 2.0 and add real UTF-8 support afterwards. I also have an application that uses UTF-8 and Embperl, so you can be sure I will add UTF-8 support, since I personally need it. The only things that holds me back from releaseing 2.0 at the moment, is that I need to do a lot of documentation cleanups before.... Gerald --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
