Re: RE: Wide character in print error

Tim Turner wrote:
> 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"...

That's not an error, it's a warning. Search perldoc perldiag for 'wide 
character':

Wide character in %s
      (W utf8) Perl met a wide character (>255) when it wasn’t expecting 
one.  This warning is by default on for I/O (like print).  The easiest 
way to quiet this warning is simply to add the ":utf8" layer to the 
output, e.g. "binmode STDOUT, ’:utf8’".  Another way to turn off the 
warning is to add "no warnings ’utf8’;" but that is often closer to 
cheating.  In general, you are supposed to explicitly mark the 
filehandle with an encoding, see open and "binmode" in perlfunc.

> 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.

If you're building exactly the same PDF from exactly the same source 
data then I'm guessing one machine may have it's locale set to a UTF8 
charset and the other not. But I can't remember all the ins and outs. 
Basically you're sending a UTF8 character to your PDF where it's just 
expecting a single-byte character.

Cheers!
Rick Measham


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