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in reply to Problems w/ encoding in terminal

What encoding do you use to save the script? If you save it as utf-8 and tell Perl you did so by
use utf8;

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everything should just work (i.e. no Encode, output set to utf-8, terminal set to utf-8).
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Re^2: Problems w/ encoding in terminal
by humble (Acolyte) on Aug 29, 2013 at 11:59 UTC
    What would you advice me to correctly output a file content from the same my script? - Again, the file content is in UTF8, but in UTF8 terminal it is not readable since outputed from my script. Do i have to decode the file content every time i want to output it using 'Encode' module?
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      Just tell Perl what encoding the file uses. There are several ways:

      When opening the file 

      open my $OUT, '>:utf8', $filename or die $!;

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      Or, after opening the file: 

      open my $OUT, '>', $filename or die $!;
binmode $OUT, ':utf8';

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      Or, if you want all your output be in UTF-8: 

      use open OUT => ':utf8';

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      See open, open, binmode for details. You can also use ':encoding(UTF-8)' instead of ':utf8' to let Perl check the validity of the data.

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        Awesome! Thank you exceedingly much!
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        Thank you very much! It worked.

        Now i have investigated a bit farther on the web and found there is a module

        use utf8::all;

        seems very interesting to me.

        But i got a problem since i have included it:

        utf8 "\xB4" does not map to Unicode (pointing to line 8, please read farther)

        on running my script1, where i set:

        use utf8::all;
require 'script2';

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        In the script2 i have:

        1 # again
2 use utf8::all;
3
4 sub openfile{
5    my $file=shift @_;
6    my $cont;
7    open my $fh, '<', $file || die "sopen: Cann't open  $file  $!";
8    do{
9        $cont.=<$fh>;
10    }until( eof( $fh ) );
11    close $fh;
12    return $cont;
13}

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        So, why is it so?

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Re^2: Problems w/ encoding in terminal
by humble (Acolyte) on Aug 24, 2013 at 09:34 UTC
    Thank you very much: worked and so i will be watching for the directive to use in the future!
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