On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:54:32PM -0800, Tim Scott wrote:
> The only hurdle I can't get started with is how to convert the Big5
> scalar into UTF-8.

my $ustring = Encode::decode(big5 => $big5_string);

> I've read various exciting things about how PERL5.8 can read a big5
> stream from a file (using something like "< :encoding(big5)" in the
> 'open' call) but this doesn't help me to convert the scalar ... does
> it ?

Well, it does, if you want to get unneccessariily fancy:

$ustring = do {
    local $/;
    open $fh, '<:encoding(big5)', \$big5_string;
    <$fh>;
}

/Autrijus/

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