Problem building Date::Calc

jdtoronto has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Esteemed Monks,

I am working through my first attempt to putting together a web server from scratch. After several days worth of problemsinstalling stuff and getting things to work at all I finally built Apache from source, same for mod_perl and MySQL 4.0.15a.

Now I am trying to install modules. When I try to install Date::Calc I get LOTS of these errors:

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x61, imme
+diately after start byte 0xed)
 at /root/.cpan/build/Date-Calc-5.3/blib/lib/Date/Calendar/Profiles.pm
+ line 2756.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x61, imme
+diately after start byte 0xed)
 at /root/.cpan/build/Date-Calc-5.3/blib/lib/Date/Calendar/Profiles.pm
+ line 2757.
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Okay, it seems like something to do with UTF-8 is not installed! The Perl is v5.8.0 installed fomr the RPM supplied with RedHat 8.0.

Do I need to recompile the Perl with something else turned on? Or is it a module thing I have missed somewhere?

jdtoronto

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Re: Problem building Date::Calc by rdfield (Priest) on Oct 17, 2003 at 07:21 UTC
Entering `export LANG=C` and then building any new modules has worked for me when I encountered this problem. rdfield	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Problem building Date::Calc by jdtoronto (Prior) on Oct 17, 2003 at 05:52 UTC
All of the unexpected nn-continuation character errors are eliminated by making the module against Perl 5.8.1, but it does fail a single test which I will investigate tomorrow. jdtoronto	[reply]
Re: Problem building Date::Calc by pg (Canon) on Oct 17, 2003 at 02:45 UTC
Seems that this happened to lots of people, just google "unexpected non-continuation byte 0x61", you will get a huge list of results. Good Luck!	[reply]
Re: Re: Problem building Date::Calc by jdtoronto (Prior) on Oct 17, 2003 at 03:05 UTC
True, true! But no-one seems to have any answers!! Is it a Perl problem or is it a module problem? Thats what I need! Do I try a new Perl install or is there something else to do. jdtoronto	[reply]
Re: Problem building Date::Calc by kelan (Deacon) on Oct 17, 2003 at 13:41 UTC
If just Date::Calc is giving an error, you could use Date::Pcalc instead, which is a pure Perl version. Obviously, if there are other modules giving errors too, you'll probably just want to figure out what's going wrong. kelan Perl6 Grammar Student	[reply]

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