Re: Desperately seeking unicode (PC)

I know very little about Perl on Windows, but I do know about this:

http://strawberryperl.com/

and I know the guy who's developing it. He's good, and he's very much an 
activist developer. He hangs out in irc.perl.org #win32, along with 
other like-minded people. I'd ask them about it :)

Anne L. Highsmith wrote:
> I have a basic MARC Record program that pulls a record out of a database 
> and makes a marc record object of it. I do this on my PC, using 
> ActiveState Perl. I have to do it on the pc, because I intend to use a 
> vendor-supplied api that exists only for Windows.
>  
> I actually have 2 PCs, and have ActiveState Perl on both. I was running 
> this program on my newer PC and was getting lots of
> utf8 "\xBF" does not map to Unicode at C:/Perl/lib/Encode.pm line 164
> type errors.
>  
> After MUCH experimentation I discovered that the program DOES run on the 
> OLD pc, but not on the new. Same program, same database record processes 
> fine on old PC, but not new one. Basically, trying to process any record 
> which contains unicode characters on the new PC generates the above 
> error message.
>  
> So, this morning, I deleted Activestate perl from the new pc, 
> re-installed with the latest version, then reinstalled MARC::Record 2.0, 
> in hopes of fixing this problem. AND IT STILL DOESN'T WORK !!!
>  
> So, I can only conclude that something is installed differently on old 
> pc, or old pc has some necessary file that the new one is missing or 
> something. Can anybody suggest where the problem might lie and the 
> solution might be?
>  
> Thanks in advance...
>  
>  
> Anne L. Highsmith
> Consortia Systems Coordinator
> 5000 TAMU
> Evans Library
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX   77843-5000
> [email protected]
> 979-862-4234
> 979-845-6238 (fax)


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