If you do this, you will have to modify the perl scripts to remove the
-w flag from their hash-bang line. "/usr/bin/env perl -w" does not
seem to do the expected thing.
Insofar as compatibility is concerned, perl's -w flag is equivalent
to the 'use warnings' language pragma, which has been supported since
5.6 (circa 2000). Seeing as perl's Unicode support did not really
mature until 5.8, I imagine that adding the 'use warnings' pragma and
doing away with the -w flag would be a reasonable approach to take.
Regards,
David
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David Christensen
End Point Corporation
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