On Tue, 2006-18-04 at 19:34 -0400, Chas Owens wrote:
> On 4/18/06, Mr. Shawn H. Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> snip
> > Yes but in UTF-8, '0' is "\x{30}" or "\x{0030}". (The newer versions of
> > Perl being 5.8+)
> snip
>
> That was my point. That assuming \x30 is the character '0' is now
> safe since all source code is interpreted as UTF-8. Is input from
> files UTF-8 by default or do you have to do the "<:encoding(UTF8)"
> thing?
>
Sadly, not all is Unicode. If you try:
print "\x{20a4}\n";
You might get the British pound sign, but you will get the warning:
wide character in print at ...
To fix this:
binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';
See:
perldoc -f binmode
perldoc -f open
perldoc perluniintro
perldoc perlunicode
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Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
--- Shawn
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