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On 04/23/2016 05:07 PM, Zefram wrote: > Karl Williamson wrote: >> Perl supports most single-byte locales, plus UTF-8 locales. > > What do you mean by "Perl supports"? What kind of support is required > from Perl? Put most baldly, if a ticket were filed saying that a non-supported locale was failing, the ticket would be rejected. I would try to fix a ticket for a supported locale. perl does a number of things to support single-byte locales. For instance, it constructs a table of each 256 bytes for use in qr//i. It does work around some deficiencies in certain, notably Win32, implementations. > >> On some platforms, just switching into some of these locales can >> cause perl to segfault (or rather it is a bug in the libc in failing >> to detect garbage input) > > We can't be expected to work around such a libc bug. I don't see the point to this statement. > > -zefram >Thread Previous