Re: listbox underlining

its not a perl5.8 vs perl5.6.1 issue, its the upgrade of perl/TK.
While moving from Tk800_24 to Tk800_027 I saw the followings pros and
cons:
+ got rid of a memory leak with Tk::callback (OK, I alreday worked
around it)
+ added support for wheel mouse
- lots of unicode problems, especially while interacting with DBI
(which does not
do unicode yet) and some regex, mostly solved by placing some forced
convertions
to iso-8859-1 at strategic places
- only ASCII in titlebar of window (not solved yet)
- Crashes in Tk::Text which large amounts of text, solved by patching
(seems to
be related to unicode to)
- crashes while starting GTK apps (solved by patching)

So while it running stable now (with patches) it was definitly no easy
way.

Petr Vileta wrote:

What is the proportion of benefits and faults when I upgrade to Tk804 and
Perl 5.8? I'm reading Czech newsgroup about Perl and I see many messages
like "My old script generate error after upgrade to Perl 5.8, but in Perl
5.6.1 work well" . Maybe if programmer use English language only all is OK,
but what is the experience other language programmers?
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