Hi, Perl 5.10 has so called "faster utf8 support" with respect to perl 5.8. Cf:
http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.1/pod/perl5100delta.pod This utf8 support is explicitly not backward compatible. Some old perl scripts put data to the databases as doubly encoded into utf8 (and thus damaged). Forums say that rewriting of the old scripts in a new style is not a big problem, but rewriting them compatible with both new and old styles is. Sorry I can not be more specific, as I observe this inside a branched-off version of the OpenXPKI. 1. Can anybody confirm problems with utf8 in the openxpki under perl 5.10 or later? 2. If yes, do you think we should: - stay with perl 5.8 - go to perl 5.10 - try to support both ? All the best, Sergei P.S. Another side effect (new structure of the ^V internal perl variable in 5.10) has (temporarily) broke automatic daily generation of openxpki ports for FreeBSD available from www.openxpki.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ OpenXPKI-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openxpki-devel
