Character-code Handling with Perl

Although Perl 5.6.1 does not directly support wide characters, its experimental support of Unicode may be a suitable solution. JPerl 5.005_003 is another solution to handle Japanese multi-byte characters albeit by an older version of Perl.

What to Do

Get the patch jperl5.005_03 and apply it to Perl. This patch is open source and available at a number of non-HP FTP sites.

Follow these steps:

	NOTE: Once patched with jperl5.005_003, you cannot use Perl as Mod_perl under the HP Apache-based Web server.