Re: utf8, japanese, web-pages: beginning to see the light...

[email protected] (Gisle Aas) 17 Jun 2004 04:02:28 -0700

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Marco Baroni <[email protected]> writes:

> Thanks for the quick reply.
> 
> > A workaround can be to pass it encoded UTF8.
> 
> Excuse me my persistent confusion, but what does this mean, in concrete?

The stuff that encode_utf8() returns (see 'perldoc Encode') or you get
from a UTF-8 file read in binary mode.  These will be byte strings
(octets), i.e. all chars have ord() less < 256 and will *not* have the
internal UTF8 flag set.

Regards,
Gisle