I've gotten the following to work (after doing a Linux localedef command for fi_FI - finnish) and am now trying to achieve some knowledge of how to do manipulations/matchings using the utf8 pragma. The locale test reads: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use POSIX; use locale; $loc = POSIX::setlocale( &POSIX::LC_ALL, "fi_FI" ); $foo = "Söderkulla"; print "locale $loc, foo $foo, FOO ".uc($foo)."\n"; with its output being: locale fi_FI, foo Söderkulla, FOO SÖDERKULLA and the utf8 test reads: #!/usr/bin/perl use utf8; $foo = "Söderkulla"; print "foo $foo; FOO ".uc($foo)."\n"; but I get the error messages: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x64 after start byte 0xf6) at ./x.x line 5. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x64 after start byte 0xf6) in uc at ./x.x line 6. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x64 after start byte 0xf6) in uc at ./x.x line 6. foo Söderkulla; FOO SKULLA I would imagine it has something to do with the assignment to $foo being made in a byte orientation and that I need to do some encoding to utf8 on the string before assignment. Any pointers? Thanks, Dave
