Wide character

[Cliff Stanford]

thread failed to start: Wide character in subroutine entry...

What on earth does this error mean? I can't find any reference.

Cliff.

 

[Thomas M. Widmann]

thread failed to start: Wide character in subroutine entry...

What on earth does this error mean? I can't find any reference.

I don't know that specific error message, but wide characters are
5.8-ese for Unicode characters > 0xff. For instance, if you try to
print such a character, you get the error message "Wide character in
print" (unless you specified it's OK to output UTF-8). See
perluniintro.

/Thomas