On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:57:52AM -0700, David Wheeler wrote: > Greetings fellow Perlers, > > I've had some complaints for a while now about non-ASCII characters > not properly showing up in emails sent by my SVN::Notify module. Last > week Éric Cholet figured out how to get it to work: He simply set the > LANG environment variable to fr_FR.ISO8859-1. > > So the problem is the LANG environment variable. Setting it to 'C' in > a BEGIN block doesn't work, either. But my sense is that it shouldn't > make any difference what the environment is set to if I'm setting the > IO layer on the file handle. Here is the code for creating the handle > in SVN::Notify:
> # Child process. Execute the commands. > exec @_ or die "Cannot exec $_[0]: $!\n"; > # Not reached. > } > } > > I'm using binmode to set the IO layer on the pipe both for reading > and writing pipes, so I'd expect it to do the right thing vis-a-vis > the localization without regard to the LANG environment variable > (Éric had the io_layer attribute set to 'raw'). But obviously I'm > wrong. Is there something I'm missing about when and/or where the IO > layer should be set? Anyone run into something like this before? I doubt that perl's at fault. What are you piping the data into, and what does it think of $LANG in the environment? Nicholas Clark
