Re^2: Chicanery Needed to Handle Unicode Text on Microsoft Windows

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This thread is refreshing to read!!! As a Windows user that is somewhat new to Perl, I spent the past few hours trying to figure out why one of my supplied 193 xml files would keep outputting as a bunch of Chinese (?) characters. Jim described exactly what I kept trying.

I finished my script. Everything else works - it does all my replaces beautifully. I have maybe spent 8 hours total on my script and it will save me about 3 days of work.

But, for now, I have to go to that specific XML file, open it in Notepad, and save it as 'ANSI' instead of 'Unicode' before my script will work right.

I have tried adding the use ' $string' supplied in this thread, but I get this error:

Unknown PerlIO layer 'raw:perlio:encoding(UTF-16LE):crlf:utf8'

I really would like to create re-usable code out of my script, but I have yet to find the answer.

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Re^3: Chicanery Needed to Handle Unicode Text on Microsoft Windows by Anonymous Monk on Sep 26, 2012 at 18:38 UTC
I have tried adding the use ' $string' supplied in this thread, but I get this error: Which perl version do you have?	[reply]
Re^3: Chicanery Needed to Handle Unicode Text on Microsoft Windows by Anonymous Monk on Sep 26, 2012 at 18:44 UTC
open it in Notepad, and save it as 'ANSI' instead of 'Unicode' before my script will work right. You probably shouldn't do that :) save as UTF-8 instead iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 < in > out piconv -f UTF-16LE -t UTF-8 < in > out	[reply]
Re^3: Chicanery Needed to Handle Unicode Text on Microsoft Windows by Anonymous Monk on Sep 26, 2012 at 18:52 UTC
see PERLIO_DEBUG in perlrun `## linux env PERLIO_DEBUG=/dev/tty perl script ... ## mswin32 set PERLIO_DEBUG=CON perl script ...` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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