The 'perluniintro' and 'perlunicode' may be of help, online
for example at http://www.perldoc.com/,
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perluniintro.html
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlunicode.html
As Autrijus mentioned, the implicit "UTF-8-ification" based on
one's locale settings is gone since it caused too many problems
for existing code.
--
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this
special
biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
