[jdev] Ok, here's my tiny little Perl script

[Trejkaz]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 04:17, John Talbot wrote:
>
> > - *and* to use unicode for string handeling by default
>
> No, it doesn't have that (and 5.8.6 has that?). It has got to be Perl's
> fault, but perhaps there's a way to avoid installing a second version of
> Perl on my system (I've got to keep the old one too, so many .debs are
> dependent on it in some way) - is this advice you're giving accurate?
> i.e. are newer versions of Perl handling unicode by default? If so,
> maybe I can just plug a 'use utf8;' command or type-in some CLI switch
> and make it all happen...

This was ringing a bell, so I did a search through the man pages.

Perl syntax is:

use encoding "utf-8";

But I was under the impression that it was utf-8 by default.  But that might 
just be the difference... mine worked as-is, but maybe your system needs the 
line.

TX

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