> Only this combination got 'split' in myFunction to chop up utf-8 > text properly. Is this behavior expected?
Without seeing more detail, yes. Raw embedded UTF-8 has to be marked as UTF-8 somehow, and "use utf8" is the primary way. > Another issue I've encountered was with using Unicode::String > under Perl 5.8 -should we no longer be using this package? Probably not. > The UTF-8 chars the package generates are not recognized > as such, 'length()' for instance reports incorrectly. Can > we somehow bless strings as UTF-8? This would be useful Please read perluniintro. "Blessing" strings to UTF-8 should not be done lightly. > for working with older packages. Pre-5.8 way of Unicode (or, even worse, pre-5.6 way of Unicode) simply is not compatible, and trying to bridge the gap is probably worse than its worth. > thanks, > > /Daniel -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
