RE: Opening & writing to UTF-8 files; copyright symbol again -- solution

2015-11-16 Thread PHILLIPS M.E.
> However, combining Jon Gorman's recommendation with some Googling, I get: > > my $outfile='4788022.edited.bib'; > open (my $output_marc, '>', $outfile) or die "Couldn't open file $!" ; > binmode($output_marc, ':utf8'); > > The open statement may not be quite correct, as I am not familiar with t

RE: Opening & writing to UTF-8 files; copyright symbol again -- solution

2015-11-16 Thread PHILLIPS M.E.
> You can set the correct encoding succinctly on opening files > e.g. open my $fh, '>:encoding(UTF-8)', $outfile You might also see this even more succinct variant: open my $fh, '>:utf8', $outfile though technically speaking, that will not give you guaranteed conformant UTF-8 because it could

RE: Opening & writing to UTF-8 files; copyright symbol again -- solution

2015-11-16 Thread PHILLIPS M.E.
rl4lib@perl.org Subject: RE: Opening & writing to UTF-8 files; copyright symbol again -- solution Hey, that’s my post! Anyways, I haven’t really looked into what your problem is, but when you said that the copyright character is getting transformed to A9 even though it is supposedly stored a

Re: Opening & writing to UTF-8 files; copyright symbol again -- solution

2015-11-16 Thread Colin Campbell
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:05:01PM +, Highsmith, Anne L wrote: > I should probably say, "apparent solution" 'cause character set issues never > seem to end. > > However, combining Jon Gorman's recommendation with some Googling, I get: > > my $outfile='4788022.edited.bib'; > open (my $output_

RE: Opening & writing to UTF-8 files; copyright symbol again -- solution

2015-11-13 Thread Shelley Doljack
Hey, that’s my post! Anyways, I haven’t really looked into what your problem is, but when you said that the copyright character is getting transformed to A9 even though it is supposedly stored as C2 A9 in the database, it made me think of how there can be two UTF-8 representations for the same c