I work with utf8 non-English text frequently, using perl 5.8.8 on Solaris-10. I can include the following lines in my code and work successfully ( I'm writing these from memory, so please forgive my syntax.):
binmode STDIN, ':utf8'; binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'; binmode STDERR, ':utf8'; use utf8; This allows my apps to work gracefully with utf8 data. However, when I use the debugger (perl -d), I have always had some problems. Basically, I could see the utf8 literals in my code, but anytime I "p" or "x", the characters above the low ASCII range simply disappeared. They were still in the variables, which I could tell by counting the length of strings, but they vanished from the visible output. Recently, I found a clue to this problem, and now I include the following in my app: binmode $DB::OUT, ':utf8'; Eureka! Now the utf8 data is visible when I "p" or "x". This is a great improvement. However, now the utf8 literals in my code are mangled. They display with some form of "^_" instead of displaying as "themselves". I am a lot better off this way than I used to be, but I'm sure there's some more magic to be applied to this problem. As a beginner, I spend a lot of time in the debugger, so a solution would be most helpful. Thanks, Lou -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
