Perl and UTF-8

[J. Erik Hemdal]

Hi Scot:

> I seem to recall some limited discussion previously regarding 
> the UTF-8 support that was introduced as far back as RH8.  I 
> recently ran into this problem again on FC2 when installing a 
> package that uses perl.  
> 

What is the problem you have with Perl?  Or is this a problem with
Fedora?  Sorry if I seem dense, but I don't understand the issue at
hand....and other posts seem to be talking past the problem.

> To resolve the problem I needed to edit the 
> /etc/sysconfig/i18n file and remove the .UTF-8 from the LANG variable.

This sounds more like a limitation in what you were trying to install
rather than a Perl problem.

> 

Erik