Never mind. .lines gives back Str and thus .encode is needed...
Thanks again
On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 06:20, WFB <wbi...@gmx.at> wrote:
> @Andreas Thanks, I was thinking to do that with regex by myself, but that
> would be a ugly workaround and only as a last resort.
>
> @Brad: Cool, thanks, I got the errors as well. But did not come up with
> your solution. One question, though:
> >> for $installer.out.lines.map(*.encode('latin1').decode('utf16')) ->
> $line {
> Why .encode? I would assume the IO::Handle is allready given back latin-1
> because of the :enc<"latin-1"> in the Run command.
>
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 18:20, Brad Gilbert <b2gi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 7:22 AM WFB <wbi...@gmx.at> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > My perl6 runs an executable and prints its output. This output is
>> printed as multibyte string. I assume the executable gives back a multibyte
>> string and perl6 interpret its as one byte string for whatever reasons.
>> > I tried Run with different encodings like windows-1251, utf16 and so
>> on. No luck.
>> >
>> > The string I get looks like that:
>> > S e t t i n g u p f o l d e r C : \ U s e r s \ w o l f
>> > Hex:
>> > 53 00 65 00 74 00 74 00 69 00 6E 00 67 00 20 00 75 00 70 00 20 00 66 00
>> 6F 00 6C 00 64 00 65 00 72 00 20 00 43 00 3A 00 5C 00 55 00 73 00 65 00
>> >
>> > Here my program:
>> >
>> > my $installer = run $install-file, :out;
>> > for $installer.out.lines -> $line {
>> > say $line;
>> > }
>> >
>> > Any idea whats wrong here. A WIndows issue or do I something wrong?
>> >
>>
>> Windows uses UTF16 encoding by default (which you see here), while
>> Perl 6 uses UTF8 by default.
>>
>> You should be able to fix it by setting the encoding
>> (Note that it should probably be set with :encoding<utf16>, but that
>> doesn't work currently)
>>
>> run $install-file, :out, :enc<utf16>
>>
>> Though I currently get an error from that.
>>
>> Streaming decode NYI for encoding 4
>>
>> Also I'm sure I should be able to set it after that line, but it also
>> produces an error
>>
>> > my $installer = run $install-file, :out;
>> > $installer.out.encoding('utf16');
>> Cannot assign to an immutable value
>>
>> ---
>>
>> A work around is to use 'latin1' (almost binary) and use `.encode.decode`
>>
>> my $installer = run $install-file, :out, :enc<latin1>;
>> for $installer.out.lines.map(*.encode('latin1').decode('utf16')) ->
>> $line {
>> say $line;
>> }
>>
>
