14 messages in org.perl.perl-qaRe: Test::Builder versus Unicode
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OvidDec 20, 2004 4:50 pm 
Michael G SchwernDec 20, 2004 6:06 pm 
David WheelerDec 20, 2004 6:13 pm 
Michael G SchwernDec 20, 2004 6:18 pm 
David WheelerDec 20, 2004 6:20 pm 
chromaticDec 20, 2004 6:27 pm 
Michael G SchwernDec 20, 2004 6:30 pm 
David WheelerDec 20, 2004 6:37 pm 
Michael G SchwernDec 20, 2004 6:41 pm 
David WheelerDec 20, 2004 6:43 pm 
David WheelerDec 22, 2004 10:25 am 
Nicholas ClarkDec 22, 2004 10:45 am 
OvidDec 22, 2004 11:41 am 
Nicholas ClarkDec 22, 2004 11:48 am 
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Subject:Re: Test::Builder versus UnicodeActions...
From:Nicholas Clark (ni@ccl4.org)
Date:Dec 22, 2004 11:48:49 am
List:org.perl.perl-qa

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 11:41:56AM -0800, Ovid wrote:

--- Nicholas Clark <ni@ccl4.org> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:26:02AM -0800, David Wheeler wrote:

1. Perl gets smarter about duping file handles, so that the dupes get the same i/o layer settings as the handles they dupe.

Changing this going forwards doesn't change any of the installed perls out there in the wild.

So far, given that this problem has only surfaced in relation to Unicode, I can't say I'm overly concerned about fixing it on versions of Perl where Unicode is already known to be broken. Of course, as

Which you're sort of implying is all versions up to and including 5.8.6 :-) (Well, I can misread it as that. I don't think that you really are implying this).

Personally I'd be quite happy using anything 5.8.3 or later with Unicode. The later the better, as more bugs have got fixed. But I feel that Unicode isn't more broken than any other existing part of perl by 5.8.1. And they are out there, and they aren't going away rapidly.

Nicholas Clark