tom arnall wrote:
I'm trying to get unicode to work in perl. When I do the 'textbook' example:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -e'binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); print chr(0x263a)' I get garbage, not a smiley face, i.e.: ΓΆΒΊ
What version of perl? (Enter `perl -v`) perl 5.8.+ works well with UTF-8 but if your terminal is not prepare for it, you get strange characters on the output. Try: perl -e'binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); print chr(0x263a)' >tmp.text and then: od -t x1 tmp.text The result should be: 0000000 e2 98 ba 0000003 Then try: more tmp.text -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
