Re: confused about utf-8, and perl.

2011-03-24 Thread Mark Jordan
Enrico, If you suspect that $xml_text is in latin1, maybe you could confirm this by running it through Encode::Guess and then encoding it to utf8: http://search.cpan.org/~dankogai/Encode-2.42/lib/Encode/Guess.pm Mark - Original Message - > I don't understand what I am doing wrong, but

RE: Printing to a Windows receipt printer from a perl script

2011-03-24 Thread KREYCHE, MICHAEL
Phil, Have you tried something like this: http://code.activestate.com/lists/perl-win32-users/30503/ I haven't done this myself, just interested in what you're trying! Mike -Original Message- From: Phil Shirley [mailto:pshir...@cuyahogafallslibrary.org] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1

Printing to a Windows receipt printer from a perl script

2011-03-24 Thread Phil Shirley
I've written some perl scripts in the past but I've never printed to a printer, and I'm having trouble getting this to work. I'd be grateful for any help you could give me. What I want to do is print to a receipt printer on the parallel port (or in some cases a USB port) of a PC running Window

Re: confused about utf-8, and perl.

2011-03-24 Thread Jon Gorman
Whoops, Sorry to rick for the double-post, but realized I didn't send my answers to the list directly... > perl 5.10.0 -- > linux/ ubuntu 2.6.31-19-generic-pae #56-Ubuntu SMP Ok, that should have some nice unicode options and should be using unicode internally. > however, when I use: LWP, and

confused about utf-8, and perl.

2011-03-24 Thread Enrico Silterra
I don't understand what I am doing wrong, but i must be misusing either MARC::Record, or perl's utf-8 support: I fetch an xml record from oclc worldcat, and turn it into a MARC::Record, then output it as perl 5.10.0 -- linux/ ubuntu 2.6.31-19-generic-pae #56-Ubuntu SMP I'm using the world cat a