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Lost in compressed encodings

by Skeeve (Parson)
on Apr 06, 2020 at 08:22 UTC ( [id://11115120]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

Skeeve has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

This is a follow up of my Lost in encodings question.

Thanks to the answers given there I was able to solve that issue, but now I'm clueless again as I now need to read in compressed (gzip) UTF-8 files and I do not know how to convince perl to read them as UTF-8.

My code for opening the files is:

open my $in, '<:utf8', $filename or die "Can't read $filename: $!\ +n"; if ($filename=~/\.gz$/) { $in= new IO::Uncompress::Gunzip $in, { AutoClose => 1 }; }

When reading uncompressed data, it works fine as I could verify with the help given in my previous thread. I did so by setting the debugger to UTF-8. When reading uncompressed data the Umlaut "ü" is correctly displayed as "ü". When reading the same data from a compressed file the "ü" is displayed as "ü".

I have no idea how to make perl consider the compressed data as UTF-8?


s$$([},&%#}/&/]+}%&{})*;#$&&s&&$^X.($'^"%]=\&(|?*{%
+.+=%;.#_}\&"^"-+%*).}%:##%}={~=~:.")&e&&s""`$''`"e

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Re: Lost in compressed encodings
by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 06, 2020 at 08:41 UTC

    The order of decompressing and decoding matters. You want to first uncompress and then decode. If you want to cheat, you can use PerlIO::gzip:

    my $in; my $open_mode = '<:raw'; if ($filename=~/\.gz$/) { $open_mode .= ':gzip'; } $open_mode .= ':utf8'; open my $in, $open_mode, $filename or die "Can't read $filename: $ +!\n";

    If you want to stay with IO::Uncompress::Gunzip, I think the following should work, but I don't know if ->binmode() also applies other encodings properly:

    my $in; if ($filename=~/\.gz$/) { $in = new IO::Uncompress::Gunzip $in, { AutoClose => 1 }; } else { open $in, '<:raw', $filename or die "Can't read $filename: $!\ +n"; }; binmode $in, ':utf8';

      Thanks Corion. I already had the feeling that the sequence somehow is the issue.

      Unfortunately providing binmode after IO::Uncompress did not help.

      My changed code:

      open my $in, '<:raw', $filename or die "Can't read $filename: $!\n +"; if ($filename=~/\.gz$/) { $in= new IO::Uncompress::Gunzip $in, { AutoClose => 1 }; } binmode $in, ':utf8';

      It still works with uncompressed and not with compressed data.

      Seems I will have to manually decode each line…


      s$$([},&%#}/&/]+}%&{})*;#$&&s&&$^X.($'^"%]=\&(|?*{%
      +.+=%;.#_}\&"^"-+%*).}%:##%}={~=~:.")&e&&s""`$''`"e

        I think that IO::Uncompress::Gunzip only understands ->binmode() and not ->binmode(':utf8');. The documentation (now that I read it ...) even says:

        This is a noop provided for completeness.

        If you are able to install PerlIO::gzip, that one should work with stacking other decoding mechanisms on top of it.

        If you have a gzip binary available, you can use that to decompress:

        my $in; if( $filename =~ /\.gz$/ ) { open $fh, "gzip -cd "$filename" |' or die "Can't read from gzip $filename: $!/$?"; } else { open $in, '<:raw', $filename or die "Can't read $filename: $!\n"; }; binmode $fh, ':utf8';
Re: Lost in compressed encodings
by jo37 (Deacon) on Apr 06, 2020 at 16:23 UTC

    You are overwriting the file handle $in with the newly created by IO::Uncompress::Gunzip. I can't tell the consequences, but it does not look sane to me.

    Greetings,
    -jo

    $gryYup$d0ylprbpriprrYpkJl2xyl~rzg??P~5lp2hyl0p$
Re: Lost in compressed encodings
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 07, 2020 at 16:46 UTC

    Nitpick: you should probably be using :encoding(utf-8) rather than just :utf8. See perlunifaq for the details.

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