Hi Martin,

Things go even more interesting. Perl 5.12 claims to fix many utf8
related bugs (!) found in Perl 5.10. Have a look here:

http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.1/pod/perl5120delta.pod

Hence we may have to check if 5.12 works for us, and then maybe make
even more complex fork choice:

8 and/or 10 and/or 12 ...

All the best, Sergei

On 17.08.2010 22:29, Martin Bartosch wrote:
> Hi Sergei,
> 
>> Perl 5.10 has so called "faster utf8 support" with respect to perl
>> 5.8. Cf:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> sigh...
> 
>> 1. Can anybody confirm problems with utf8 in the openxpki under perl
>> 5.10 or later?
> 
> Unfortunately not as of today. All my installations are using Perl 5.8. I 
> will have a look if I can get a test installation running on 5.10, but don't 
> hold your breath. I've put it on my todo list.
> 
>> 2. If yes, do you think we should:
>>
>> - stay with perl 5.8
>> - go to perl 5.10
>> - try to support both
> 
> My main prod deployment runs under Perl 5.8 (SuSE SLES 10), so I will stick 
> to 5.8 at least for the lifetime of the installation. SLES 11 already comes 
> with 5.10, so I guess I will be facing a possible migration situation as well.
> 
> I would really like to support both versions, but your above statement looks 
> like we will have to make a choice. I need to learn more about the issue, I 
> guess.
> 
>> 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
> 
> Now this is just great. :(
> 
> cheers
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
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