As I have mentioned in an earlier posting, I am working my way
(slowly) through Learning Perl, 6th edition. In this edition it uses
UTF-8 throughout. So I have been trying to make this happen in my
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit environment.
Currently the only way I have been able to display Unicode characters
in the command console is as follows:
#!/usr/bin/env perl -w
use utf8;
system "chcp 65001";
print "\x{03B1}\x{03C9}\n";
This seems to do the job, but is inelegant. I would much rather prefer
that the command console automatically default to displaying all text
as UTF-8, but Googling has not found a solution for me. Does anyone
know how to solve this?
One other thing that bugs me is that if I have warnings turned on as
above and actually print non-ASCII characters, then I get an unwanted
warning. For instance, the above code gives me this output:
Active code page: 65001
Wide character in print at helloworld.pl line 5.
αω
Press any key to continue . . .
Ideally, I would rather I did not get the first two lines of output.
Is there a way to accomplish this and still have warnings turned on?
(I understand that the first line is a consequence of my system
command to turn on UTF-8.)
Thanks!
boB
P.S.: It just occurred to me that there is an extra blank line just
above "Press any key to continue...". Why is this? I was not expecting
this to happen.
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