Wasted another half hour struggling with the various Unicode features or non-features of Perl 5.6, 5.8.0, 5.8.1, 5.8.2 and finally decided to the only sensible thing: Give up. If everybody uses UTF-8, fine. If anybody chooses not to, they’re on their own.
Read a few posts from Raed’s Family blog. It seems that only his mother Faiza blogs... Interesting because just today ChristopheDucamp got me thinking about a FamilyWiki. Would it work? I only knew one family wiki that returned to traditional static webpages. Why? I don’t know. I *think* it happened because there was only one person authoring pages, and that one person just preferred another tool to publish pages.