Re: error in printing unicode

There are basically 3 lines that you'll want to be using if you're  
going to be using unicode in your perl scripts - one for input, one  
for output, and one for using unicode characters within the perl  
script itself.

binmode STDOUT, ":utf8"; 			#this tells perl that the stdout is to be  
encoded as utf8
open (INPUT, "<:utf8", $ARGV[0]); 	#this tells perl that the input  
file is encoded as utf8
use utf8;				#this tells perl that there are unicode characters  
inside the .pl file

so for what you're talking about, you only need to include that line  
at the beginning of a program, but you might find it helpful to have  
the other 2, for future reference.

Dan

On May 8, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Vlad Stanimir wrote:

> I just finished reading "Beginning Perl by Simon Cozens Chapter 1:  
> First Steps In Perl" and i tried to print a Unicode character using  
> the \x{} but i got a strange outcome i don't understand.
> The code was:
>
> #!/user/bin/perl
> use warnings;
> print "\x{2620}\n";
>
> and the result was:
>
> Wide character in print at C:\Documents and Settings\Vlad\desktop 
> \test.plx line 3.
> ?ÿá
>
> I used windows xp
> cmd.exe
> and i have activeperl 5.10.0 build 1002
>
>
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