[comp.lang.perl] Bug with 8 bits characters

brossard@sic.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII) (02/15/91)

   Using the latest perl, patch level 44,
writting a script, I came upon this bug:

Unrecognized character \37777777740 ignored at /usr/share/local/configure_client_boot_4.1.1 line 158.
Unrecognized character \37777777750 ignored at /usr/share/local/configure_client_boot_4.1.1 line 171.

   The problem is a print with french characters, if the
print is in the main body of my perl script: no problem.
But if I try to print french characters within a subroutine
which is in a different file, I get the error above.

   The subroutine is in a file which is "imported":
require '/usr/share/local/configure_client_boot_4.1.1';

   and it is called this way:

do configure( $host, $arch, $arch_k, '/usr', '/usr/kvm', '/' );

   I would guess that the problem is with the require rather
than the do, but I could be wrong.
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Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
	SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse
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