Re: Japanese, Unicode, Perl... oh my!

[Peter Prymmer]

Neil Gower wrote:

> With the addition of unicode support in Perl 5.6.0, I was hoping to be able to
> use some existing perl scripts (with minor modifications) on Japanese text. 
> However, man perl-unicode explains that Perl can't read utf8 encoded text
> files.    So the question is,
> 
> How does one get utf8 text into Perl 5.6 strings?

Try Gisle Aas's Unicode::Map8 module from CPAN.  I think that it
requires that you install Unicode::String ahead of it.

Peter Prymmer