B.30. Locales and Unicode
It''s a small world, after all. In order to work properly in
places where even the alphabet is different, Perl has support for
locales and
Unicode.
Locales tell Perl how things are done locally. For example, does the
character æ sort at the end of the alphabet, or between ä
and å? And what''s the local name for the third month? See
the perllocale manpage (not to be confused with the
perllocal manpage).
See the perlunicode manpage for the latest on
how your version of Perl deals with Unicode. As of this writing, each
new release of Perl has many new Unicode-related changes, but we hope
things will settle down soon.