Panjabi Characters and Marc-Detrans

Hi Folks,

 

I'm trying to run MARC-Detrans with Panjabi Characters.  Apparently Perl
is finding them indigestible and I'm getting the error message:

Cannot decode string with wide characters at C:/Perl/lib/Encode.pm line
166.

I'm guessing that this may relate to the version of Perl I'm running,
(5.8.8) not having all the underpinnings it needs for the Panjabi block
of Unicode (U+0A02-U+OA74).  Would upgrading my version of Perl solve
the problem? Or am I missing something more subtle?  I running
detransliterations of Bengali very nicely, but as soon as I put a single
Punjabi character into the Config file it wonks out.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

JJ

 

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