Not sure which list to post this to since it relates to Perl unicode,
but it's also a bug of sorts...
Here's the test script that reproduces the problem, the perl -V report
of the system with the problem, followed by the results from the test
script. After that is another perl -V report from another Linux
machine that does not exhibit the problem (it now has Encode 1.99, but
was running an older version of Encode-- I want to say it was 1.75;
that older version did not exhibit this problem either):
I believe this bug was fixed somewhere between Perl 5.8.0 and 5.8.1 (it
is already
fixed in Mac OS X 10.3.2's 5.8.1-RC3 plus change, and is still fixed in
5.8.2
and 5.8.3 I have compiled for myself). So yes, it was a bug in Perl,
not
Encode (which makes sense, Encode doesn't diddle with regex matching as
such).
--
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
