On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:49:22PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> I believe "use open ':locale'" does that.

This seems to work:

perl -e 'use open ":locale";' -ne 'if(/^(\x{fa})$/) { print "$1\n"; }'

(rather ugly for commandline one-liners)

> Well, hey, I'm the one who agreed with you in the first place and asked
> that 5.8.0 be done that way, but apparently the current maintainers of
> Perl 5 got an excessive amount of grief from people whose production
> programs broke under RedHat.  And I've been so far off in Perl 6 La La
> Land (aka "second system syndrome done right") that I let the Perl 5
> folks make the decision to back that out.

Oh well.  Please do get locale handling right this time around.  :)

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