On Jun 22, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Tommy Nordgren wrote:
22 jun 2006 kl. 20.15 skrev Sherm Pendley:
On Jun 22, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Tommy Nordgren wrote:
How do I write proper utf 8 characters to a file? I write only
two characters, and they come out as four
garbage characters when I view the file in an editor.
Quick answer:
open FH, ">:utf8", "file";
Complete answer:
perldoc perluniintro
perldoc PerlIO
I've already tried that. That was what i was doing when I got
garbage.
Well, the above is correct as far as Perl goes - but it doesn't rule
out other problems. Are you certain that the editor you're using is
interpreting the file correctly, as UTF8? Also, are you certain that
your input really is UTF8?
For instance, I ran this script to generate a test file:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8; # This allows utf8 in string literals, like below
open FH, '>:utf8', '/Users/sherm/hello.txt' or die $!;
print FH "Hëllö, wörld!\n";
close FH;
When I open the file in BBEdit, I see gibberish, because BBEdit can't
determine that it's UTF8 (there's no BOM), and misinterprets it as
the default Mac OS Roman instead. But, if I change BBEdit's default
encoding, or use the "Reopen Using Encoding" function, BBEdit
displays the file correctly.
sherm--
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