Re: Mixing Unicode and Byte output on a Unicode enabled Perl 5.8.0

[Frank Smith]

Gentlemen, thank you for your prompt replies. Excuse me my bad English instead of "screw" I should have said Perl correctly outputs two bytes 0xC2 0xA3 the code for £ (Pound Sterling) but Excel interprets it as two separate Characters. A capital A with a small circle on top (Sorry, I do not know the correct name) followed by the £ (Pound Sterling).   As I need to maintain compatibility with Windows 98 I will look very closely at the section in the man page on Encoding via PerlIO which I had missed.   Thanks   Frank >>> Jungshik Shin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>09/10/03 11:15:21 >>> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Guido Flohr wrote: > BTW, Windows editors also insert that BOM at the beginning when writing > XML files encoded in UTF-8. In other words: If you edit a UTF-8 XML > file with Windows Notepad, it will be corrupted. MSIE and Mozilla (!) > still treat it as well-formed XML but a standards compliant parser will > of course reject it. Well, I am not fond of UTF-8 BOM at all, but it's not a violation of the standard to prepend an XML file in UTF-8 with UTF-8 BOM (see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-guessing ). Jungshik *********************************************************************** This transmission contains information which may be confidential and which may also be privileged. It is intended for the named addressee only. Unless you are the named addressee, or authorised to receive it on behalf of the addressee you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please contact the sender. Thank you for your cooperation. *********************************************************************** For more information about AEA Technology please visit our website at http://www.aeat.co.uk AEA Technology plc registered office 329 Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QJ. Registered in England and Wales, number 3095862.