> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Dubois
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Ludwig, Michael wrote:
> >
> > VBS generates a perfect document, but my PerlScript-ASP messes up
> > Greek and Russian.
>
> The problem is the PerlScript engine. It does not support
> source code encoded in UTF-8; all sources will be converted
> into the ANSI codepage before being passed to the Perl
> interpreter. So any characters not in CP_ACP will already be
> replaced by '?' by the time the Perl parser reads the code.
> There is nothing you can do at the Perl level to get it
> working, as the replacement character business is not
> reversible (many different characters all get mapped to the
> same replacement character).
Thanks. That statement is as clear as can be. Once we know
what's up it's easier to deal with it.
> The only ways around it are to use \x{....} to specify the
> Unicode codepoints in hex, or \N{...} to use codepoint names.
> Alternatively you could read the text from an external file
> at runtime, but that pretty much doesn't fit the ASP style to
> mix everything in a single file.
My example was just that, an example. The external file
alternative fits my intended setup more closely. I only
wanted to know what can work and what won't. Thanks!
Best,
Michael Ludwig
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