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
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
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
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
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
Thank you a simple
no encoding;
solves the problem and everything is happy.
Easy when you know how
Frank
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On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Guido Flohr wrote:
> BTW, Windows editors also insert that BOM at the beginning when writing
> XML files en
