Re: Mixing Unicode and Byte output on a Unicode enabled Perl 5.8.0

2003-10-10 Thread Frank Smith
Jarkko Yes I am using 5.8.0 and your comment about 5.8.1 sees to say it all Thanks Frank PS I like the quote >>> Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/10/03 11:12:11 >>> > I think this area of 5.8 whilst better than 5.6 may still need some clarification before the average user can understan

Re: Mixing Unicode and Byte output on a Unicode enabled Perl 5.8.0

2003-10-10 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
> I think this area of 5.8 whilst better than 5.6 may still need some clarification > before the average user can understand it easily. Are you using 5.8.0 or 5.8.1? From your description I would guess .0. I would suggest 1, there the "automatic" conversion was disabled, the UTF8 locale no more

Re: Mixing Unicode and Byte output on a Unicode enabled Perl 5.8.0

2003-10-10 Thread Frank Smith
One Small Doubt The only area of doubt I have about this problem being caused by the base Perl and it configuration results from having the MIME::Lite and MIME::Base_64 modules available. Both of these I would expect to have access to the encode features but neither are used in this code module

Re: Mixing Unicode and Byte output on a Unicode enabled Perl 5.8.0

2003-10-09 Thread Frank Smith
Thank you a simple no encoding; solves the problem and everything is happy. Easy when you know how Frank >>> Jungshik Shin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/10/03 11:15:21 >>> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Guido Flohr wrote: > BTW, Windows editors also insert that BOM at the beginning when writing > XML files en

Re: Mixing Unicode and Byte output on a Unicode enabled Perl 5.8.0

2003-10-09 Thread Frank Smith
Gentlemen, thank you for your prompt replies. Excuse me my bad English instead of "screw" I should have said Perl correctly outputs two bytes 0xC2 0xA3 the code for £ (Pound Sterling) but Excel interprets it as two separate Characters. A capital A with a small circle on top (Sorry, I do not kn

Re: Mixing Unicode and Byte output on a Unicode enabled Perl 5.8.0

2003-10-09 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Guido Flohr wrote: > BTW, Windows editors also insert that BOM at the beginning when writing > XML files encoded in UTF-8. In other words: If you edit a UTF-8 XML > file with Windows Notepad, it will be corrupted. MSIE and Mozilla (!) > still treat it as well-formed XML but a

Re: Mixing Unicode and Byte output on a Unicode enabled Perl 5.8.0

2003-10-09 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Frank Smith wrote: > I am trying to use the £ (pound sterling) symbol in a script that > produces both TEXT and HTML the html handles the Unicode fine, all the > browsers seem to work. However, once the text file arrives on the Windowz > box the Unicode £ screws Excel. > Can y

Re: Mixing Unicode and Byte output on a Unicode enabled Perl 5.8.0

2003-10-09 Thread Guido Flohr
Hi Frank, Frank Smith wrote: I am trying to use the £ (pound sterling) symbol in a script that produces both TEXT and HTML the html handles the Unicode fine, all the browsers seem to work. However, once the text file arrives on the Windowz box the Unicode £ screws Excel. What do you mean by "screw

Mixing Unicode and Byte output on a Unicode enabled Perl 5.8.0

2003-10-09 Thread Frank Smith
Hi! I have read a lot of the entries and tried some of the techniques described but still I am lost. I have a Red Hat 8 installation with Perl 5.8.0 installed. The environment sets Perl to use Unicode by default because I use British English as my language. I am trying to use the £ (pound ster