(RADIATOR) Perl 5.8, LANG and UTF8

[Mike McCauley]

Hello all,

a number of users have recently reported problems with Radiator on RH8 with 
Perl 5.8, where LANG is set to a UTF8 character set. This can cause perl to 
exit with an error message like:

Wide character in Socket::inet_ntoa

This is due to new UTF8 character handling in perl 5.8, including some curious 
new default behaviour involving sockets.

Previously we suggested setting the LANG environment variable to en_US, or 
some other non-UTF8 set.

We have now released some patches that should resolve the problem, independent 
of the setting of LANG. See 
http://www.open.com.au/radiator/downloads/patches-3.3.1/

We invite people who need UTF8 to try the latest patches and report their 
results to me.

Cheers.

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Mike McCauley                               mikem at open.com.au
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