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On Thu Aug 29 13:05:00 2013, public@khwilliamson.com wrote: > have all been superseded so should be rare today, but a bug report > could > be written on this. Rare under linux. AFAIK FreeBSD 9 (latest stable) users still have single-byte encoding locale by default (at least they try hard to get UTF-8 working and it's only partly supported) http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=34682 There are real users with non-UTF8 locale, I saw one. We've spent serveral hours trying to find why my perl script hangs sometimes, and in the end found bug in perlio https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=117537 related to non-UTF A real application which is broken by this change is 'ack' (ack 1 and ack 2). Russian error messages now printed with warning (under UTF-8 locale!). French error messages now corrupted (because it's Latin-1) under UTF-8 locale too. https://github.com/petdance/ack2/issues/367 --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=119499Thread Previous | Thread Next