The gibberish looks as if the string from the text file was not decoded (converted into an Unicode string). I am not fluent in the Perl way of dealing with Unicode strings, so I apologize for being unable to offer more specific advice.
On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 12:43 +0300, Oren Maurer wrote: > Hi all > I'm trying my first steps with Perl/Tk. > > I want to read input text file and show the file contents on a frame. > > The input text file has Hebrew and / or Arabic characters. > It is saved as UTF-8. > > The Latin characters are displayed Ok. But the Hebrew / Arabic > characters are shown as Gibberish (I mean - those small 'x' and '[]' > instead of real Hebrew). > > For example: > 003134388 24633 H $$aכל ספוריו ×(c)ל ×(c)מו×ל יוסף ×¢×'× ×•×Ÿ > > Instead of: > 003134388 24633 H $$aכל ספוריו של שמואל יוסף עגנון > > > What can I do?? -- May the holy trinity of $_, @_ and %_ be hallowed. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
