I’m running a Perl script (both with 5.8.4) on two different machines (one Solaris 5.10, the other OpenSolaris 5.11). The output of the two scripts differs in the following way:
Solaris 5.10
$ perl myscript.pl
is' £ ä º <ä ¼ sa ... ³ ä º žÃ ... ¬ å ¸ ç ¬ ¬ ä º ¤ § œâ is œâ ¡ä ¸ ‡ å ... æœ ¬ æœ ¬ å ¸ È, ¡ä »½ çš" å ... ¬ å'Š
OpenSolaris 5.11
$ perl myscript.pl
Board of directors about the companys second-largest shareholder of the notice by Chibengongsi shares
Basically, the chars on the Solaris box are messed up. The output of locale on both is identical.
OpenSolaris
$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 4) configuration:
Platform:
osname=solaris, osvers=2.11, archname=i86pc-solaris-64int
uname='sunos localhost 5.11 i86pc i386 i86pc'
config_args=''
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_TS_ERRNO',
optimize='-xO3 -xspace -xildoff',
cppflags=''
ccversion='Sun WorkShop', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=4, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags =''
libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
gnulibc_version=''
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-R /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/i86pc-solaris-64int/CORE'
cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES
Locally applied patches:
22667 The optree builder was looping when constructing the ops ...
22715 Upgrade to FileCache 1.04
22733 Missing copyright in the README.
22746 fix a coredump caused by rv2gv not fully converting a PV ...
22755 Fix 29149 - another UTF8 cache bug hit by substr.
22774 [perl #28938] split could leave an array without ...
22775 [perl #29127] scalar delete of empty slice returned garbage
22776 [perl #28986] perl -e "open m" crashes Perl
22777 add test for change #22776 ("open m" crashes Perl)
22778 add test for change #22746 ([perl #29102] Crash on assign ...
22781 [perl #29340] Bizarre copy of ARRAY make sure a pad op's ...
22796 [perl #29346] Double warning for int(undef) and abs(undef) ...
22818 BOM-marked and (BOMless) UTF-16 scripts not working
22823 [perl #29581] glob() misses a lot of matches
22827 Smoke [5.9.2] 22818 FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP1 (x86/1 cpu)
22830 [perl #29637] Thread creation time is hypersensitive
22831 improve hashing algorithm for ptr tables in perl_clone: ...
22839 [perl #29790] Optimization busted: '@a = "b", sort @a' ...
22850 [PATCH] 'perl -v' fails if local_patches contains code snippets
22852 TEST needs to ignore SCM files
22886 Pod::Find should ignore SCM files and dirs
22888 Remove redundant %SIG assignments from FileCache
23006 [perl #30509] use encoding and "eq" cause memory leak
23074 Segfault using HTML::Entities
23106 Numeric comparison operators mustn't compare addresses of ...
23320 [perl #30066] Memory leak in nested shared data structures ...
23321 [perl #31459] Bug in read()
27722 perlio.c breaks on Solaris/gcc when > 256 FDs are available
SPRINTF0 - fixes for sprintf formatting issues - CVE-2005-3962
6663288 Upgrade to CGI.pm 3.33
REGEXP0 - fix for UTF-8 recoding in regexps - CVE-2007-5116
6758953 Perl Sys::Syslog can log messages with wrong severity
Built under solaris
Compiled at Apr 8 2009 17:12:58
@INC:
/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/i86pc-solaris-64int
/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib
/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int
/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4
/usr/perl5/site_perl
/usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int
/usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4
/usr/perl5/vendor_perl
.
Solaris
$perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 4) configuration:
Platform:
osname=solaris, osvers=2.10, archname=i86pc-solaris-64int
uname='sunos localhost 5.10 i86pc i386 i86pc'
config_args=''
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_TS_ERRNO',
optimize='-xO3 -xspace -xildoff',
cppflags=''
ccversion='Sun WorkShop', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=4, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags =''
libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc
libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
gnulibc_version=''
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-R /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/i86pc-solaris-64int/CORE'
cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES
Locally applied patches:
22667 The optree builder was looping when constructing the ops ...
22715 Upgrade to FileCache 1.04
22733 Missing copyright in the README.
22746 fix a coredump caused by rv2gv not fully converting a PV ...
22755 Fix 29149 - another UTF8 cache bug hit by substr.
22774 [perl #28938] split could leave an array without ...
22775 [perl #29127] scalar delete of empty slice returned garbage
22776 [perl #28986] perl -e "open m" crashes Perl
22777 add test for change #22776 ("open m" crashes Perl)
22778 add test for change #22746 ([perl #29102] Crash on assign ...
22781 [perl #29340] Bizarre copy of ARRAY make sure a pad op's ...
22796 [perl #29346] Double warning for int(undef) and abs(undef) ...
22818 BOM-marked and (BOMless) UTF-16 scripts not working
22823 [perl #29581] glob() misses a lot of matches
22827 Smoke [5.9.2] 22818 FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP1 (x86/1 cpu)
22830 [perl #29637] Thread creation time is hypersensitive
22831 improve hashing algorithm for ptr tables in perl_clone: ...
22839 [perl #29790] Optimization busted: '@a = "b", sort @a' ...
22850 [PATCH] 'perl -v' fails if local_patches contains code snippets
22852 TEST needs to ignore SCM files
22886 Pod::Find should ignore SCM files and dirs
22888 Remove redundant %SIG assignments from FileCache
23006 [perl #30509] use encoding and "eq" cause memory leak
23074 Segfault using HTML::Entities
23106 Numeric comparison operators mustn't compare addresses of ...
23320 [perl #30066] Memory leak in nested shared data structures ...
23321 [perl #31459] Bug in read()
27722 perlio.c breaks on Solaris/gcc when > 256 FDs are available
SPRINTF0 - fixes for sprintf formatting issues - CVE-2005-3962
6663288 Upgrade to CGI.pm 3.33
REGEXP0 - fix for UTF-8 recoding in regexps - CVE-2007-5116
Built under solaris
Compiled at Jul 31 2008 10:45:31
@INC:
/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/i86pc-solaris-64int
/usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib
/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int
/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4
/usr/perl5/site_perl
/usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i86pc-solaris-64int
/usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4
/usr/perl5/vendor_perl
.
Try use utf8; or use encoding “whatever”;.