Not quite so relicy as thought in #11651 (op/concat #4 and #5

stopped working).

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@11653

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/regcomp.c b/regcomp.c
index 2b9fbbbb9d..2e37633e93 100644
--- a/regcomp.c
+++ b/regcomp.c
@@ -1666,7 +1666,11 @@ Perl_pregcomp(pTHX_ char *exp, char *xend, PMOP *pm)
     if (exp == NULL)
 	FAIL("NULL regexp argument");
 
-    RExC_utf8 = 0;
+    /* XXXX This looks very suspicious... */
+    if (pm->op_pmdynflags & PMdf_CMP_UTF8)
+        RExC_utf8 = 1;
+    else
+        RExC_utf8 = 0;
 
     RExC_precomp = exp;
     DEBUG_r(if (!PL_colorset) reginitcolors());