[perl #56820] use locale;" breaks \w on matching c-cedilla, o-diaeresis and u-diaeresis under tr_TR.utf8 and de_DE.utf8 locales

On Sat May 04 19:51:08 2013, khw wrote:
I merged in #117787 to this one.  I'm confident they are the same cause,
which is outside Perl's control, except if we workaround the libc bug. 
But for followers of #56820, here is a workaround:

> Also, starting in 5.16, there is a work-around available for this
> problem, as described in perllocale under "Unicode and UTF-8".  What you
> do is write
> 
>  use locale ':not_characters';
> 
> and use any of several I/O methods mentioned in that doc which convert
> to/from the current locale

-- 
Karl Williamson

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