RE: RE: Wide character in print error

 
I am outputting codes for trademark, copyright, and a bullet... Maybe those
are unicode?
	# define special chars
	$trademark = "\x{2122}";
	$registered_trademark = "\x{ae}";
	$copyright = "\x{a9}";
	$bullet = "\x{2022}";
Are those unicode?????????

The version of perl is v5.8.7 for the one that fails.  When it fails the pdf
returned is garbage and it says that it is a corrupted doc.

The version of perl is v5.8.5 for the server that works.


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Measham
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 6:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [perl-text-pdf-modules] 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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