Richard Evans wrote:
Sean M. Burke wrote:
Jouke Visser, a fellow Locale::Maketext user, pointed out that if I added
a "use utf8" to Maketext.pm, it would fix Maketext's dealings with utf8
data.
Would anyone object if I went and added the "use utf8;" to the start of
Maketext.pm? Clearly the problem would be that users with Perls
pre-dating utf8.pm wouldn't be able to use Maketext then.
I figure since this list has (I think) several people responsible for
Maketext-based systems, it's a good place to talk about this.
--
Sean M. Burke http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/
Hi Sean,
I've had exactly this problem with the DateTime::Locale stuff I'm doing.
Having talked to a few folks about it, the answer was actually dead simple:
BEGIN
{
return unless $] >= 5.006;
require utf8; "utf8"->import;
}
I've tested it with perl 5.8, 5.6 and a 5.5 nsperl (can't remember the exact
release off hand).
Cheers,
Rich
