Package: perl-base Version: 5.10.1-17squeeze3 Severity: important Tags: upstream
Some versions of perl, including 5.10.1-17squeeze3, have problems matching utf-8 characters: $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 perl -e 'use utf8; "Herbert Grönemeyer" =~ /(.*?)\s*\(with (.*)\)$/i' Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xb6, with no preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at -e line 1. $ _ More info can be found at e.g. http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=843208 -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (450, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages perl-base depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.8.12 Debian package management system ii libc6 2.11.3-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib perl-base recommends no packages. Versions of packages perl-base suggests: ii perl 5.10.1-17squeeze3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
