Re: forked process exiting before output read

["Jeffrey Ratcliffe" <jeffrey ratcliffe gmail com>]

Back last year, I started using datagram sockets for communication
between a parent (GUI) and forked process:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-perl-list/2007-July/msg00070.html

On 31/07/2007, muppet <scott asofyet org> wrote:
> If small lines of text are what you have, you might actually want to
> use datagram sockets, because you'll get guaranteed delivery of
> entire messages.

This seems to break for utf8 messages, with:

*** unhandled exception in callback:
***   Wide character in send

I've tried creating the filehandles with

$fh = FileHandle->new(":utf8");

or

binmode $fh, ':utf8';

without success. Is it possible to get this working for datagrams, or
am I going to have to use a different technique?

Regards

Jeff