Am I expecting too much, too early?
Not at all.
I pasted your message into TextEdit and saved it as utf-8 on the desktop with the name biao.txt.
This script then behaves as I would expect:
#!/usr/bin/perl
no warnings ;
$f = "$ENV{HOME}/Desktop/biao.txt" ; # file saved as UTF-8
open F, $f or die $! ;
$/ = "\015" ; # only if the file has Mac line endings !!!
print "\x{8868}\n\n"; # prints the character as utf-8
for (<F>) {
print "1. $_" if /Ë°®/ ;
print "2. $_" if /\xE8\xA1\xA8/ ;
}Note that if you write use utf8; it will NOT work
JD
