 | | | perl upgrade problems | perl upgrade problems 2005-07-28 - By Benjamin Franz
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Brian Long wrote:
>
> Perl 5.8.0 might have been broken from perl.org, but the Perl included
> in RHEL is not straight from opensource. Red Hat applies security and
> bug fixes (backported from later releases). If you know of something
> specifically broken in perl 5.8.0 in RHEL, please open a bugzilla. Red
> Hat should back-port a fix for any serious bugs and release it in an
> errata.
>
The most persistently lethal problem is still present: Perl 5.8.0
implictly opens filehandles through a :utf8 filter when the system locale
is a UTF-8 based locale. It causes scripts to die if reading any 8 bit
data that _is not_ UTF-8. This was fixed back in 5.8.1 (released in 2003
!!!).
A glance at bugzilla indicates this same bug was reported back in December
2002. And still is not fixed.
--
Jerry
Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.
- Alan Kay
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