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nick
Date:
January 21, 2001 03:38
Subject:
Re: 8482 busted for $^V sprintf()s on OS/390
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E14KIm4-0004d6-00@roam1
Andreas J . Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de> writes:
> print chr 9729
>
>dies with the "Wide character in print" error from patch 8058 through
>8494 for me. On Linux.

As it should ?

>
> binmode STDOUT, ":utf8"; print chr 9729;
>
>works. Should we not presume STDOUT to be utf8-aware? 

At least _this_linux box's konsoles are NOT UTF-8 aware.
As I understand it by default perl is still iso8859-1 (ASCII world)

>Or am I missing
>a Configure option?
-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons
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