Re: [perl #24526] Combination of rindex() and index() is non-deterministic with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:23:12PM -0000, martin@xanalys.com (via RT) wrote:
> Calling index() after calling rindex() when LANG is en_GB.UTF-8 can give
> non-deterministic results.  In particular, index() will return the wrong value
> unless a dummy call to index() with position 0 is made first.

Thanks for the report, and sorry for the late reply. Perl 5.8.0 and .utf8
locales didn't work together well; this has been fixed in Perl 5.8.1
onwards.

Regards,

Dave.

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• [perl #24526] Combination of rindex() and index() is non-deterministic with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by perlbug-followup
• Re: [perl #24526] Combination of rindex() and index() is non-deterministic with LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 by Dave Mitchell