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Perl 5.8 has been unsupported for a while now, so if you find a bug in Perl 5 itself, you're going to have to fix it yourself. (Canonical probably isn't going to support it for you.)

If you find a bug in one of your CPAN modules, you may or may not get support from the author for Perl 5.8. That depends on the author. (I don't support 5.8. Canonical probably isn't going to support it for you.)

If you need working Unicode, 5.12 is really the earliest version of Perl 5 that has anything close to complete support. 5.14 is your best option.

(Perl 5.12 is a bit faster than 5.10 and uses a little less memory, and 5.14 continues that trend.)

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In reply to Re: Arguments for upgrading from Perl 5.8 by chromatic
in thread Arguements for upgrading from Perl 5.8 by dlarochelle

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