Re^2: accented characters are garbled

[7stud]

You can check 'use utf8', or binmode.

1. 'use uft8' enables you to use utf8 characters while you are writing your program, i.e. in your source code--not read utf8 text from an outside source.
2. binmode() is for reading binary data, i.e. data that consists of single bytes; and binmode turns off newline conversions. The op doesn't want to read binary data, the op wants to read utf8 characters, which can be multiple bytes long; and there is no reason for the op to turn off newline conversions.

[afoken]

binmode can do more than turning off newline conversion. It can set I/O layers, like :utf8 and :encoding(utf8). See binmode for more details, and the difference between the two layers.

Of course, it is also possible to setup the required I/O layers directly in open, using the three-arguments form. See open.

Alexander

[7stud]

Whoops.