Hi, Not had the misfortune to need to play with this stuff, but I guess the documentation for perl is a good place to start:
perldoc perl Particularly: perldoc perluniintro perldoc perlunicode Some aspects are version dependent, so make sure your script insists on a minimum version of perl. Why are you doing this? Is most of your experience with C? Jonathan Paton On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:18:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > i have intensively searched the web for a solution on the following problem, > but could not find any indication for it. > > The following code does basicelly nothing else then reading in a file on > single char basis and writing it to a file again. The input file is encoded > as UTF-8 as well as the output file i want to create. I read in the > characters by using getc(). > However i still get incorrect results in my output-file. Does anybody know of > mistakes i do when combining getc() with reading unicode files? > > Any input is greatly appreciated. Thanks very much in advance! > > Tim > > ( I am using Perl 5.8.5 on Intel SuSE 9.2) > > .. > > open(INFILE, "< $ARGV[0]") || die "\nCannot open from-file!"; > open(OUTFILE, "> $ARGV[1]") || die "\nCannot create to-file!"; > > binmode(OUTFILE, ":utf8"); > binmode(INFILE, ":utf8"); > > .. > > while(!eof(INFILE)) { > > for ($i = 1; $i < $Ntes_Zeichen; $i++) { > > $dummy = getc(INFILE); if (eof(INFILE)) {exit} > print OUTFILE $dummy; > > } > > $dummy = getc(INFILE); > print OUTFILE $ersetze_durch; > > } > > close(INFILE); > close(OUTFILE); > > Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 5) configuration: > Platform: > osname=linux, osvers=2.6.8.1, archname=i586-linux-thread-multi > uname='linux g168 2.6.8.1 #1 smp thu jul 1 15:23:45 utc 2004 i686 i686 > i386 gnulinux ' > config_args='-ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dinstallusrbinperl > -Dusethreads -Di_db -Di_dbm -Di_ndbm -Di_gdbm-Duseshrplib=true -Doptimize=-O2 > -march=i586 -mcpu=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -Wall -pipe' > hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define > usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define > usemultiplicity=define > useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef > use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef > usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef > Compiler: > cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS > -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', > optimize='-O2 -march=i586 -mcpu=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -Wall > -pipe', > cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS > -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe' > ccversion='', gccversion='3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)', gccosandvers='' > intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 > d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 > ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', > lseeksize=8 > alignbytes=4, prototype=define > Linker and Libraries: > ld='cc', ldflags ='' > libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib > libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc > perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc > libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so > gnulibc_version='2.3.3' > Dynamic Linking: > dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E > -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i586-linux-thread-multi/CORE' > cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared' > > Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): > Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES > PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT > Built under linux > Compiled at Oct 1 2004 23:30:38 > @INC: > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i586-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5 > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i586-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i586-linux-thread-multi > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl > > __________________________________________________________ > Mit WEB.DE FreePhone mit hoechster Qualitaet ab 0 Ct./Min. > weltweit telefonieren! http://freephone.web.de/?mc=021201 > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > -- #!perl $J=' 'x25 ;for (qq< 1+10 9+14 5-10 50-9 7+13 2-18 6+13 17+6 02+1 2-10 00+4 00+8 3-13 3+12 01-5 2-10 01+1 03+4 00+4 00+8 1-21 01+1 00+5 01-7 >=~/ \S\S \S\S /gx) {m/( \d+) (.+) /x,, vec$ J,$p +=$2 ,8,= $c+= +$1} warn $J,, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>