I am using perl5.6.1 both on Windows 2000 and Mandrake Linux 8.1.
On Windows the UTF-8 strings are handled in a reasonable manner, that is
length() returns the number of characters and /./ matches a single
character. On Linux though, length seems to return the byte length of the
string, and /./ fails to match characters over 127. This happens even if I
use a UTF-8 locale.
Do you have 'use utf8;' in your script? After adding this I have not any
problems on Linux (SuSE Linux 7.3).
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best regards
Ing. Roman Vasicek
software developer
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