Oh thanks a lot. This was the problem.
I solved it by installing perl 5.8.3.
Teddy
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Graff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Octavian Rasnita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 5:34 AM
Subject: Re: Strange "UTF-8" problem
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > The one line script was:
> > perl -e 'open(I, "lang.lng"); while(<I>) {next if /^[\t ]*#/; next
unless
> > /\w/; s/\s*$//; print;}'
> >
> > The text file lang.lng was:
> > line1=māta
