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On 04/24/2016 01:07 AM, 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? Karl, is this documented anywhere, other than tickets that get closed? I assume the solution you're thinking of for POSIX.pm will provide that? > >> 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. If we can detect it will crash if it happens, we can prevent it from triggering the crash. That sounds fairly reasonable, no?Thread Previous | Thread Next