>>>>> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 20:03:08 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> binmode FH1, ":raw"; Make this binmode FH1, ":utf8"; > I don't understand what the [UTF8 "\x{c4}"] "\x{x4}" is valid perl notation for the Unicode character 0xc4. % perl -le ' my $data = "\xC4"; binmode STDOUT, ":utf8"; print $data ; ' | od -t x1 0000000 c3 84 0a 0000003 > What's worse is that the output file contains xc4 and not > the utf-8 sequence I expected. Because you chose :raw. Hope this helps, -- andreas