Re: Emit Russian and Chinese in console mode app? If not, which windowing package?

On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 19:23 -0700, siegfried wrote: > Can someone point me to an example of a little program that emits non-ascii > Unicode characters (Russian or Chinese perhaps)? The unicode > Russian/Cyrillic alphabet starts at 0x410. Is this possible to do in a > console mode program? If not, I

Re: Perl equivalent of the unix time command

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Melroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > Is there a perl equiavelnt of the unix time command to find out how > long > a given process takes to run? > google search revealed no help. The only thing I found was the times > command, > but I don't think it does what

Re: Character Sets and Encoding in Web Applications

Dr.Ruud wrote: Nigel Peck schreef: I have a web application that gathers various data. When users enter pound signs (english money not #) a number of strange characters get stored in the database: Here's a copy and paste: £6.50 per hour That is UTF8 encoded text. You can use Enco

Re: Character Sets and Encoding in Web Applications

Nigel Peck wrote: Dr.Ruud wrote: Nigel Peck schreef: I have a web application that gathers various data. When users enter pound signs (english money not #) a number of strange characters get stored in the database: Here's a copy and paste: £6.50 per hour That is UTF8 encoded text. Y

Re: Character Sets and Encoding in Web Applications

Nigel Peck wrote: > > Thanks for this. How can I find out a string's encoding? Just as in spoken languages there are ways to guess a string's encoding, but you really need to know the language / encoding used before you can process it properly. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]