Hi Uri,
On Saturday 07 May 2011 18:10:43 Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "SF" == Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> writes:
> SF> Just a question - how well can read_file and their friends handle
> SF> encodings/character-sets? Reading a file using binmode $fh,
> SF> ":encoding(utf-8)" (or whatever) would be a major dealbreaker for
> SF> me (and many other people), because I cannot assume that the data
> SF> that a file reads is in 8-bit binary data. See:
>
> there is a binmode option that lets you set any value binmode can
> handle. there is a test for utf8 files that works. anything else is up
> to the caller to manage.
>
OK, thanks for the info, and for taking this important aspect into
consideration. Sorry for not looking in the docs before I asked.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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