Are you certain that your copy of perl-base is: 1) Reasonably up-to-date (at least compared to your copy of perl), and 2) Not corrupt or missing part of it?
I ask because pbuilder build trees from the middle of December (at least as far back as December 11th) on my machine show utf8_heavy.pl installed in /usr/share/perl/5.8.4/utf8_heavy.pl utf8_heavy.pl should be installed on your machine, and it should be a part of perl-base. Please try: apt-get install --reinstall perl-base and then look at this bug report again. Also, check what package owns the file /usr/share/perl/5.8/utf8.pm with: dpkg -S /usr/share/perl/5.8/utf8.pm Because there is no such file on my system. utf8.pm should by in /usr/share/perl/5.8.4 In any case, if you don't have utf8_heavy.pl, it's not a bug against bins - your perl install is messed up, which (depending on how it got that way) may be a bug against perl. I suspect that at this point you can't do a simple: perl -e 'use utf8;' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]