On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:23:19AM -0400, Chas. Owens wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:05 AM, hw <h...@gc-24.de> wrote: > snip > > So which character encoding on STDOUT does perl use by default? That should > > be utf-8 without any further ado, shouldn´t it? When I add > > > > > > binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(utf-8)"; > > > > > > the characters are displayed correctly in the terminal. Why would perl use > > something else than utf-8 by default?
As a general rule, use "utf8::all" instead of just "utf8" and a lot of the problems go away. > Also, this answer on StackOverflow by tchrist (Tom Christiansen, who I > would say knows the most about the intersection of Perl and Unicode) > is a good resource: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6163129/78259 Quite. And utf8::all tries to encapsulate as much of that boilerplate as it can. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
