Re: Unicode question

2012-07-13 Thread Andy Bach
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Manfred Lotz wrote: > But if I'm using it in a subroutine then 'use bytes' is only effective > in the scope of the subroutine, isn't it? That is how I would use it > preferably. Yeah, it appears that way. "use" is a compile time event (require is runtime) so I was

Re: Unicode question

2012-07-13 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:40:55 -0500 Andy Bach wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Manfred Lotz > wrote: > > This is really nice. I fumbled with unpack before but have to admit > > that I didn't know about 'use bytes' which is the key. > > Couple interesting links, unpack in painful detail:

Re: Unicode question

2012-07-12 Thread Andy Bach
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Manfred Lotz wrote: > This is really nice. I fumbled with unpack before but have to admit > that I didn't know about 'use bytes' which is the key. Couple interesting links, unpack in painful detail: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=224666 and utf-8 and "use byte

Re: Unicode question

2012-07-12 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:01:35 +0200 Manfred Lotz wrote: ... > > > > On the one hand I believe there must be a 'better' way. On the other > hand I like the idea (didn't occur to me) to read from the string as > if it were a file. > I found something in a blog from Jan Ploski: http://plosquare.b

Re: Unicode question

2012-07-12 Thread Manfred Lotz
Hi Shawn, Thanks for your reply. On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:50:16 -0400 Shawn H Corey wrote: > On 12-07-12 02:08 PM, Manfred Lotz wrote: > > The following code works fine. However, I like to know how to > > retrieve the UTF-8 hex representation of $uchar which is x'e0a487'. > > This is the internal

Re: Unicode question

2012-07-12 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 12-07-12 02:08 PM, Manfred Lotz wrote: The following code works fine. However, I like to know how to retrieve the UTF-8 hex representation of $uchar which is x'e0a487'. This is the internal representation in Perl, so it should be possible to print it out. Is there any function or module I coul

Unicode question

2012-07-12 Thread Manfred Lotz
Hi all, Perhaps this is a stupid question. Anyway. The following code works fine. However, I like to know how to retrieve the UTF-8 hex representation of $uchar which is x'e0a487'. This is the internal representation in Perl, so it should be possible to print it out. Is there any function or modul

unicode question

2002-03-24 Thread birgit kellner
I have a DHTML editor embedded in a webpage. The output of the editor is handled by perl and written to text-files. Sometimes text is pasted into the editor from a word document, and it contains unicode characters from sets such as Latin Extended Additional. (This is on a win2k machine.) Ques