On 11/23/07, Ken Perl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use following piece of code to write smiley Unicode string
> into a file,
>
> use Encode;
> my $smiley = "\x{263a}";
> open my $out, ">:utf8", "file" or die "$!";
> print $out $smiley;
>
> however, if we dump the output file in binary mode, the hex looks
> wrong, it isn't 263a, any idea what's wrong with the code?
>
> 0000000: e298 ba ...
I don't think anything is wrong with the code; you have a UTF-8 file.
http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html
If you want a file to contain the hex value 263A, that's easy too:
print $out "\x26\x3A";
Hope this helps!
--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training
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