Bug#529305: Workaround for: use locale;" breaks \w on matching c-cedilla, o-diaeresis and u-diaeresis under tr_TR.utf8 and de_DE.utf8 locales

[Dominic Hargreaves]

A possibly-useful workaround for people experiencing this bug.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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Subject: [perl #117787] use locale;" breaks \w on matching c-cedilla,
	o-diaeresis and u-diaeresis under tr_TR.utf8 and de_DE.utf8 locales
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Also, starting in 5.16, there is a work-around available for this
problem, as described in perllocale under "Unicode and UTF-8".  What you
do is write

 use locale ':not_characters';

and use any of several I/O methods mentioned in that doc which convert
to/from the current locale
-- 
Karl Williamson

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