On Thursday 01 Apr 2010 12:25:51 Thomas Bätzler wrote:
> Doug Cacialli wrote:
> > The unicode / UTF16 issues presented by Thomas and Dr. Rudd are a
> > little beyond me. I'm reading up now, but can someone shed some
> > light?
>
> Let's see if I can quickly summarize:
> - text is made up from le
Doug Cacialli wrote:
> The unicode / UTF16 issues presented by Thomas and Dr. Rudd are a
> little beyond me. I'm reading up now, but can someone shed some
> light?
Let's see if I can quickly summarize:
- text is made up from letters (characters).
- a computer doesn't "know" letters, it only know
Doug Cacialli wrote:
> I'm completely baffled by this and not entirely sure where to start.
>
> I have a plain text file, testfile.txt, which contains a single line:
Could this be an encoding issue? How big is that file? Larger than 18 or 19
bytes?
If yes, http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunicode