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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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Subject: [9fans] perl and locales
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:43:00 -0700
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what would it take to set the default locale in perl to *.UTF-8?
currently string functions break when faced with unicode characters,
especially 'length'.  the normal way of changing the locale:

	use locale; use POSIX qw "locale_h"; setlocale(...);

doesn't work because "use POSIX" fails.

perl also reports that it _has_ been compiled with locale support.

lastly, does anyone besides me care?

andrey