"Jan Dubois" (j...@activestate.com) writes: > I've double-checked with Leon, who thinks that this is due to bug 38456: > > http://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=38456 > > He made a patch to fix the bug, and the patch has been applied to > bleadperl already. I ran you sample script with 5.13.9 plus his > patch, and it generates a correct 38 bytes file. I'm not sure > if this change could/should be picked for a 5.12.4 release as > well, but I guess it probably won't. But 5.14 should be out > in April or May anyways... > > It looks like there is still a lot of brokenness lurking in > the internals of the Perl I/O layer implementation. :( Thanks for the update, Jan.
Yes, there certainly seems to be some more stuff to do in the Unicode support in Perl. For instance, support for Unicode filenames in open or opendir. -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
