There are basically 3 lines that you'll want to be using if you're
going to be using unicode in your perl scripts - one for input, one
for output, and one for using unicode characters within the perl
script itself.
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8"; #this tells perl that the stdout is to be
encoded as utf8
open (INPUT, "<:utf8", $ARGV[0]); #this tells perl that the input
file is encoded as utf8
use utf8; #this tells perl that there are unicode characters
inside the .pl file
so for what you're talking about, you only need to include that line
at the beginning of a program, but you might find it helpful to have
the other 2, for future reference.
Dan
On May 8, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Vlad Stanimir wrote:
I just finished reading "Beginning Perl by Simon Cozens Chapter 1:
First Steps In Perl" and i tried to print a Unicode character using
the \x{} but i got a strange outcome i don't understand.
The code was:
#!/user/bin/perl
use warnings;
print "\x{2620}\n";
and the result was:
Wide character in print at C:\Documents and Settings\Vlad\desktop
\test.plx line 3.
?ÿá
I used windows xp
cmd.exe
and i have activeperl 5.10.0 build 1002
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