On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 04:17, John Talbot wrote: > > > - *and* to use unicode for string handeling by default > > No, it doesn't have that (and 5.8.6 has that?). It has got to be Perl's > fault, but perhaps there's a way to avoid installing a second version of > Perl on my system (I've got to keep the old one too, so many .debs are > dependent on it in some way) - is this advice you're giving accurate? > i.e. are newer versions of Perl handling unicode by default? If so, > maybe I can just plug a 'use utf8;' command or type-in some CLI switch > and make it all happen...
This was ringing a bell, so I did a search through the man pages.
Perl syntax is:
use encoding "utf-8";
But I was under the impression that it was utf-8 by default. But that might
just be the difference... mine worked as-is, but maybe your system needs the
line.
TX
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