Hello Jonathan, all, thank you for your kind response.
[snip] > I never use getc... > > In C, where getc originates, the getc function returns a > char type. The C char type is almost always 8 bits long. > By definition it doesn't support unicode, so neither does > Perl. It would be nice if they told you though. [snip] the get() stuff really turned out to be the wrong track of reaching my goal. What I am doing now instead of getc()ing character after character is to use the File::Slurp module. From this module i now found very useful reading in the complete file content into a single scalar, tough i do know, that holding content of a complete file in _one_ scalar is not very scalable. For the processing afterwards in my script however it seems to be the only solution. Additionally just one comment: my problem of dealing with unicode input is quite comfortably solved now. Interestingly the File::Slurp module from CPAN, which is referenced in the perl documentation, seems not to be able to deal with unicode content. For this case using the CPAN module Perl6::Slurp, which requires at least Perl 5.8.0, completely resolved the unicode problem. Again, thank you very much for your valueable input, Tim __________________________________________________________ Mit WEB.DE FreePhone mit hoechster Qualitaet ab 0 Ct./Min. weltweit telefonieren! http://freephone.web.de/?mc=021201 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
