on 01.8.7 10:53 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi at jhi(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi wrote:
* Use perl 5.6.0 or above
I would strongly urge using 5.6.1 at this point: several Unicode
bugs in 5.6.0 were fixed for 5.6.1.
Everyone hear that? Use 5.6.1. That is also the version that is covered
by 3rd Camel Book (It magically covered 5.6.1 A WHOLE YEAR before it was
actually released).
In the upcoming (hopefully in a few months) 5.8.0 the Unicode support
is even better (e.g. regexes work much better with Unicode), and a new
module called Encode (for doing encoding transformations) is included.
If you are interested in testing and helping out, please try the
latest developer release of Perl, 5.7.2 (please note that the 5.7
series is NOT suitable for production use, however, it's a developer
release so rough edges are to be expected).
I feel obligated to help because there appears a critical shortage of
engineers in Perl (5/6) porters who grok multiple byte codes. I believe
features like Jcode should be handled by standard modules. I prescribed
Jcode because and only because Camel could not digest Japanese. If there is
a chance to "genetically engineer" the camel this is definitely a feature
that should be included in its DNA....
Dan the Camel Vet
