On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 05:08, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: > What exactly is broken in RedHat 8.0/9.0 - RedHat's build of perl, > perl's support for unicode or perl's support for locales ?
Short answer: the Perl build is fine if you change the locale to what it was in previous version of Red Hat (en_US.ISO8859-1) or simply remove the UTF8 part. My understanding is that setting locale to UTF8 makes it try to open everything as a UTF8 document, but not everything is one. It causes problems for Java and Konsole too apparently. It could simply be that Perl's handlling of UTF8 is broken, but I didn't want UTF8 in the first place so putting LANG back to what it was before seems like a reasonable fix to me. More here: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/UsingPerl58OnRedHat8 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87682 - Perrin
