Perhaps this is premature, but is there any prognosis about how/when Unicode 4.0 will be folded into the Perl 5.8 distribution?
Is it conceivable (dare I ask, planned?) that this could be done as part of the 5.8.1 release? I don't participate at present in perl-porters or any of the other core-development-related lists, so I'm utterly in the dark. But I hope to be among the first to install 5.8.1 when it's ready, and the first to use Unicode 4.0 -- esp. the heavily-revised "South Asia" character sets (i.e. Devanagari) -- when that's ready. Dave G.