Re: trying to get unicode to work in perl

[Mr. Shawn H. Corey]

tom arnall wrote:

I'm trying to get unicode to work in perl. When I do the 'textbook' example:

        [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -e'binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); print 
chr(0x263a)'

I get garbage, not a smiley face, i.e.:

âº

What version of perl?  (Enter `perl -v`)

perl 5.8.+ works well with UTF-8 but if your terminal is not prepare for it, 
you get strange characters on the output.

Try: perl -e'binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); print chr(0x263a)' >tmp.text
and then: od -t x1 tmp.text

The result should be:
0000000 e2 98 ba
0000003

Then try: more tmp.text

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Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
 Shawn

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
 Aristotle


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