On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:01:04PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > I'm trying to get unicode to work in perl. When I do the 'textbook' example: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -e'binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); print > chr(0x263a)' > > I get garbage, not a smiley face, i.e.: > > ΓΆΒΊ > > My environment is: ... > LC_ALL=en_US ... > LANG=EN_US.UTF8 ... > LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
Did you set LC_ALL? It is not set by default (at least not on my system). What is the output of locale (and why is your kmail sending ISO-8852-1 mails?) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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