Hello, Thank you Brandon McCaig and John Delacour for your answers. They both point me to my mistakes.
The major problem was that I did not understand at all how perl deals with strings. First I have to use "use utf8" if i want perl to understand 'é' and not 'Ã' '©' when I write 'é' in my script. I did not realise because the terminal turns 'Ã' '©' back to 'é'. Second, when I want to talk to a terminal, I have to tell perl what encoding the terminal is expecting by using the correct IO encoding layer for the terminal. And finally, the encode_json and decode_json functions are designed to be quick functions that can **export** or **import** utf data over binary IO channel and NOT to/from a terminal that needs some additionnal encoding layer. So I should not be surprised to see 'é' instead of 'é' on a terminal. In the end, - "use utf8" - binmode( \*STDOUT, ':utf8' ). And in fact binmode( $channel, ':utf8' ) for every channel that's opened to utf8 encoded text file. - Only use encode_json and decode_json with binary communication channel since they already perform the utf transformation. Thanks again, Christophe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
