Hello, Please try the short script attached, coming straight from the Perl Cookbook ftp page, at www.ora.com . It gives a tree view of the output of the du command. On a standard xterm in RH8 it also gives a bunch of these errors: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at ./SOFT_TMP/cookbook.examples/ch05/dutree line 17, <> line 773. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at ./SOFT_TMP/cookbook.examples/ch05/dutree line 19, <> line 773. The errors disappear when one "export LANG=en_US", kind of like the man page issue. The script mb2md, converting mailboxes to Maildir format, shows an almost identical problem (download it at http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ ) After these two simple test cases, the actual question: Red Hat did a Very Good Thing moving to Unicode/UTF-8 defaults in psyche. Somebody had to start the mass migration, and I am glad that they did. In spite of this, it cannot be denied that {old, 3rd party} Perl scripts, working on {old, randomly encoded} text files break when run in the default Perl/shell environment of psyche. Is there a Red Hat page specifying: what must be changed in scripts so that one does NOT need to alter variables before and after perl things, maybe one-liners what kind of shell wrappers one must use when there is no possible solution of the kind above If there is no such page, why not? Keep in mind that I'm perfectly aware that it is not only Red Hat responsibility. I am posting almost the same message to the Perl/UTF-8 list. What I'm asking to Red Hat is something that clearly says: "with our default environment and Perl packages, do this, this and this to make your scripts working again" "This and that specific behaviors are bugs in Perl, and we have to wait that they fix it" "This and that specific behaviors mean that the *script* is hopelessly broken, and should be rewritten (ditto for specific perl modules" Any feedback is welcome! Ciao, Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering iron, a manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
