Hi jay,
> You haven't told us what Perl thinks the encoding of the first file > is. how can I do that? > file is a system command that makes use of number of different > approaches to determine file type including, on some systems, I think > it even makes use of metadata. Actually examining the data in the file > is time-consuming, and therefore a method of last resort, employed > only when some other context doesn't match. It also returns the first > match, not all matches. You're right, but my inputfile does only contain 7bit ascii data. So every file perl creats, or modifies, should be utf8. I am working with a ubuntu, so everything should be utf8-ified. my xterm is utf8! that means that the "ä" in s/// is utf8, too. <snip> > At the command line, you can use the -C switch to avoid confusion. If I understand you right, following code should allways create a utf8 encoded file. Since my inputfile does only contain 7bit ascii data. and STDIN STDOUT and STDERR is changed to utf8. % perl -C7 -wpi -e 'use encoding "utf8"; s/"o/ö/' datei % file datei datei: ISO-8859 text % hexdump -C datei 00000000 65 69 6e 65 20 74 65 73 74 20 64 61 74 65 69 0a |eine test datei.| 00000010 64 69 65 20 22 75 20 f6 20 0a |die "u . .| f6 = ö in lation1 c3 b6 = ö in utf8 Regards Martin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
