Re: Opening & writing to UTF-8 files; copyright symbol again -- solution

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:05:01PM +0000, Highsmith, Anne L wrote:
> I should probably say, "apparent solution" 'cause character set issues never seem to end.
> 
> However, combining Jon Gorman's recommendation with some Googling, I get:
> 
> my $outfile='4788022.edited.bib';
> open (my $output_marc, '>', $outfile) or die "Couldn't open file $!" ;
> binmode($output_marc, ':utf8');
> 
You can set the correct encoding succinctly on opening files 
 e.g. open my $fh, '>:encoding(UTF-8)', $outfile

Hope that helps
C.

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