OK, thanks, that makes sense. I am hoping to get python installed on these
servers and then it won't be a problem, until then I need to use this hack.
It appears installing Python on certain versions of Solaris is quite a pain.

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Wooble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> The perl length() function returns the number of characters in a
> string, while the HTTP Content-Length header is the number of bytes in
> the content.  If your content contains multi-byte characters, these
> won't be the same thing.
>
> From perldoc length:
> Note the characters: if the EXPR is in Unicode, you will get the
> number of characters, not the number of bytes. To get the length of
> the internal string in bytes, use bytes::length(EXPR) , see bytes.
> Note that the internal encoding is variable, and the number of bytes
> usually meaningless. To get the number of bytes that the string would
> have when encoded as UTF-8, use length(Encoding::encode_utf8(EXPR)).
>

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