runtime now looks at the SVf_UTF8 bit on the SV to decide

whether to use widechar semantics; lexer and RE engine continue
to need "use utf8" to enable unicode awareness in literals
and patterns (TODO: this needs to be fixed); $1 et al are marked
SvUTF8 if the pattern was compiled for utf8 (TODO: propagating
it from the data is probably better)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4930

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/gv.c b/gv.c
index 5a91c08fab..acd85012e7 100644
--- a/gv.c
+++ b/gv.c
@@ -581,9 +581,7 @@ Perl_gv_fetchpv(pTHX_ const char *nambeg, I32 add, I32 sv_type)
     /* No stash in name, so see how we can default */
 
     if (!stash) {
-	if (isIDFIRST(*name)
-	    || (IN_UTF8 && ((*name & 0xc0) == 0xc0) && isIDFIRST_utf8((U8*)name)))
-	{
+	if (isIDFIRST_lazy(name)) {
 	    bool global = FALSE;
 
 	    if (isUPPER(*name)) {