On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 19:23 -0700, siegfried wrote:
> Can someone point me to an example of a little program that emits non-ascii
> Unicode characters (Russian or Chinese perhaps)? The unicode
> Russian/Cyrillic alphabet starts at 0x410. Is this possible to do in a
> console mode program? If not, I guess I would want to use a package that is
> as close to the Microsoft windows API as possible.
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> Assuming I cannot do this in a console mode program: I went to CPAN.org and
> did a search for win32. I was a bit overwhelmed! I'd like a package that
> will let me call CreateWindow and explicitly call my own message pump. I'm
> assuming that if it will let me do these functions, it will let me also call
> some more exotic functions like LoadKeyboardLayout , MapVirtualKeyEx , and
> ToUnicodeEx. (It is this last function that is supposedly producing Unicode
> text that I want to display).
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> I'm prototyping an application using C# and recompiling it all the time is
> driving me nuts.
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> Thanks!
>
> Siegfried
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Most xterms understand Unicode these days. See `perldoc -f binmode` on
how to change Perl's output to emit UTF-8 characters.
Also see:
perldoc -f open
perldoc uniintro
perldoc unicode
perldoc utf8
perldoc encoding
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