Thanks John, For the explanation
I have done some debugging myself since posting, the character in question turned out to be a hyphen that one of our content producers had cut and paste from a word doc into our cms. Regards Colin -----Original Message----- From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 6 April 2005 12:17 PM To: Perl Beginners Subject: Re: Wide character in print? Johnstone, Colin wrote: > Gidday all, Hello, > What does this error mean please? ?? I assume that you mean the Subject line? perldoc perldiag [snip] Wide character in %s (W utf8) Perl met a wide character (>255) when it wasn't expecting one. This warning is by default on for I/O (like print). The easiest way to quiet this warning is simply to add the ":utf8" layer to the output, e.g. "binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'". Another way to turn off the warning is to add "no warnings 'utf8';" but that is often closer to cheating. In general, you are supposed to explicitly mark the filehandle with an encoding, see open and "binmode" in perlfunc. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This E-Mail is intended only for the addressee. Its use is limited to that intended by the author at the time and it is not to be distributed without the author's consent. Unless otherwise stated, the State of Queensland accepts no liability for the contents of this E-Mail except where subsequently confirmed in writing. The opinions expressed in this E-Mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the State of Queensland. This E-Mail is confidential and may be subject to a claim of legal privilege. If you have received this E-Mail in error, please notify the author and delete this message immediately. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- !DEPTSTAMP1! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
