Suppressing the utf8 assertions, I think I've got to what this ticket is about. The commit identification is fine. The problem reduces to: $ good_perl -lwe 'print ":".."~"; print 1' : 1 $ bad_perl -lwe 'print ":".."~"; print 1' Argument ":" isn't numeric in range (or flop) at -e line 1. $ -zeframThread Previous | Thread Next