Re: RE: Wide character in print error

Tim Turner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a script that uses PDF::API2 to generate a PDF.  It works fine on one
> server.
> On another server it generates a corrupted file error.  The web server error
> log has an entry for that script and says the error is "Wide character in
> print"...
> 
> Anyone run into this or know what it is referring to.  I've looked at the
> line it mentions and I think it happened way before as the line it refers to
> is not relevant.
> 

Yes.

If you are running perl 5.6.+ to 5.8.0-, PDF::API2 will not work.

Well, that's quite right.

Perl before 5.6 can work if there are no Unicode characters in your 
files.  Perl 5.8+ knows all about Unicode, but perl 5.6.+ has to be told 
that there are Unicode characters in your data.

On every machine you want to execute your code, run `perl -v`.  If it 
says the version is less than 5.8.0, post your results.

Your error message means that your program is outputting Unicode, that 
is, UTF-8, but your terminal does not accept it.


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