Re: [Wigwam-devel] publishing bug with LANG

[Michael R. <mr...@bl...>]

Ah, turns out that binmode (FILEHANDLE) does what we want without
resorting to any 5.8-specific features.

The fix is committed.

That's funny, leave it to perl 5.8 to make us have to use binmode() on a
unix system.  (Overall, I am very displeased with the number of horribly
incompatible changes perl 5.8 has introduced.  Anyone else run afoul of
"vstrings"?)

But I guess in this specific case, binmode() was the right thing to do
anyway (in case diff-playpens ever gets ported to windows, or whatever)...

Mike

Paul Mineiro writes:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Michael Radford wrote:
> 
> > So maybe setting LANG is simpler; I was just nervous that it might have
> > unintended consequences, and explicitly asking for the raw i/o layer
> > seemed to be exactly what we want.
> 
> i'd rather ask for what we want.  the LANG thing was because i couldn't
> figure out the right way to do it.
> 
> > > >It looks like the correct solution is to detect perl >= 5.8 and then
> > > >explicitly call open ($fh, "<:unix", $file) or
> > > >open ($fh, "<:stdio", $file).
> 
> what would this look like ... and does it require pragmas that are not
> perl 5.005 ?
> 
> -- p
> 
> I don't want to have to buy MS brand toilet paper one day to make
> my ass compatible.