Mh, no. That's not it, since in the beginning the code didn't use those statements. I was taking ownership of the code and then had weird warnings popping up al

Mh, no. That's not it, since in the beginning the code didn't use those statements. I was taking ownership of the code and then had weird warnings popping up all over the place. The fix for them was always one of those things from the stackoverflow list. So, no, i'm not convinced perl has good unicode support in terms of actually supporting the programmer. Mind you, that was 2 or 3 years ago, so maybe the situation is different now. To me, it was just a stupid task of creating new tests, finding a warning and then trying to figure out what the fix is. Sometimes the fix broke other parts or libraries and then you go to fix #2 (because of course there are a gazillion ways in Perl to do a single task). To me it was really not a very good experience. And really, just look at that stackoverflow article. That's a consistent and good unicode support? No. Maybe the current perl is different, though (i think the project ran 5.12 or 5.14).