Re: [OT] Japanese

2003-06-17 Thread Nicholas G. Thornton
Oh, something important I just noticed about this discussion. It seems my email (or the listserv?) is further garbling some of the mojibake I send out. The last three examples should be... a-grave, i-acute, a-circ/hat, capital-delta infinity, T, infinity, U, infinity, G, unequal, curved-open-doub

Re: [OT] Japanese

2003-06-17 Thread Nicholas G. Thornton
Well well, it looks like I got a lot of replies over the night... There were two places I've gotten the mojibake text: one was from an email (I was asking how to make a specific kanji i couldn't find), the second was from file names a japanese friend of mine gave me (mp3). As far as typing in Japa

[OT] Japanese

2003-06-16 Thread Nicholas G. Thornton
I ask only because it came up here before and I can find nothing online about it... I'm trying to do some things in japanese on my OSX box, unfortuanately my japanese isn't terribly good so any help info on my computer is minimally helpful. My biggest question is how to get garbled text like deg.T

Re: [MacPerl] Re: problem with Japanese text

2003-03-28 Thread Nicholas G. Thornton
-Robin wrote: parallels for this in English can be seen in English group names - a gaggle of geese, a troop of monkeys, a knot of toads, a pack of dogs. Anyone care to suggest a good one for a group of perl programmers ? a larry, a wall, a camel . ;-) -end quote I'll throw my 0.02

Re: MacPerl->Perl help

2003-03-05 Thread Nicholas G. Thornton
Much of my questioning has been spawned by a friend of mine wanting some of the small utility programs I have around, but not wanting to "install another program (i.e. MacPerl.)" Using *.command the file still opens the file in BBEdit rather than running it in a new terminal window for me. I am u

MacPerl.pm ->OSX

2003-03-05 Thread Nicholas G. Thornton
I was wondering if there's any way to do some of the stuff "in" MacPerl.pm on OSXPerl? Namely MacPerl::GetFileInfo() and MacPerl::SetFileInfo() ~wren

Re: MacPerl->Perl help

2003-03-05 Thread Nicholas G. Thornton
>You need to convert the line-endings in the >script to Unix. They're >Mac right now. > > -Ken Ah thanks! That's done it. Any reply on running from aqua or droplets? ~wren

MacPerl->Perl help

2003-03-05 Thread Nicholas G. Thornton
Hello, I'm used to programming on MacPerl from back in the day with OS9 and before (though I've also done a little Perl on windows.) Now I'm trying to make the switch over to using the unixish Perl that comes with OSX and I'm having difficulties. As I recall you can run a script from the commandlin