Re: [Boston.pm] Perl and utf16 e.g. for Windows Registry file

2006-07-18 Thread Duane Bronson
Options: Buy vs. Build - you can use a tool such as InCtrl5 to see what has changed on your system between two points in time. Unfortunately, it's difficult to obtain InCtrl5. You could export the registry as a regedit v4 file, which I believe is utf-8, or at least it's mostly ascii.

[Boston.pm] Perl and utf16 e.g. for Windows Registry file

2006-07-14 Thread Tolkin, Steve
Summary: How to use Perl 5.8.0 to handle files encoded using utf-16 on Windows? Details: I have read that perl 5.8 ought to handle utf-16 without me needing to tell it anything. But I am now getting the behavior I expect. Specifically, I want to find what changed in a Registry after I install a

[Boston.pm] Perl and utf16 e.g. for Windows Registry file

2006-07-14 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Tolkin, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:51:04 -0400 Summary: How to use Perl 5.8.0 to handle files encoded using utf-16 on Windows? Details: . . . How about trying to re-encode it as UTF-8 first? This should at least give you some compression of the