> -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Strack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 5:06 PM > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Question on an error I keep receiving... > > Hi > I'm very new to Perl and teaching myself...Running ActiveState port on > Windows Server 2003 version 5.8.8 build: 819. > > I'm writing some very simple scripts to return basic numerical values > for learning purposes and keep receiving the below error: > > panic: utf16_to_utf8: odd bytelen blah, blah, blah.. > > The line it fails on is: print 25000000, "\n"; > > > I've gotten this same error when trying to return unicode values. > > Is this environment-related behavior with Perl on Windows? > > Thanks for helping me further my education. > You might want to Google for:
perl panic: utf16_to_utf8: I did, and found this answer: Problem solved. All I had to do was to save my perl files as UTF8, in Notepad. Ciao! Not sure if that will help... but you might want to give it a shot. :-) Brian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
