I'm puzzled by this perl behaviour

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Terrence Enger <tenger-ew0EfhANLmVEfu+5ix1nRw at public.gmane.org>

| At 16:05 2003-09-20 -0400, "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
| > 
| > I don't understand why the regular expression match in the following
| > perl script fails if and only if the environment is utf8.

| For what it's worth, I get "package happy" with both values
| of LANG when I execute whacky.pl on ...
| 
|  (*) "This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux" runing on
|      Slackware 9.0
| 
|  (*) "This is perl, v5.6.1 built for
|      MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 1 registered patch, see
|      perl -V for more detail)" running on Windows ME.
| 
|  (*) "This is perl, version 5.005_02 built for os400"
|      running on OS/400 V5R2.

Thanks.  This appears to be a bug in Red Hat LINUX 9.0's perl.

	This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
	(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

See
	<http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102106>
	<http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/257602.html>


Hugh Redelmeier
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