Unicode at Windows' cmd.exe

[tompagenet]

I have tried outputting Unicode characters to cmd.exe. I have the font of cmd windows set to Lucinda. I've tried this:

binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
system('chcp 65001');
print "\x{016B} \n";
print "£ \n";

This is saved in a perl program in a UTF-8 encoded file. I have run this and this is the output I get on the screen:

Active code page: 65001
ū

£

Why am I getting that "Â" before the pound sign? Any ideas how to fix it? Note that the ū *does* appear correctly as a u with a bar, but it won't display in this post. Tom

[massa]

Your script is probably using UTF-8 (as the encoding of the body of the script). So, you must

use utf8;

I, personally (as a Brasilian that has pt_BR as native language), start all my scripts with:

use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8; # I will write this script in UTF-8
use open qw(:std :locale); # All files to be open in the native cp
use locale; # I want my string comparisons according to native locale

This makes my I/O to be done in cp1252 in Windows, and in Latin1 or UTF-8 in linux. I edit my scripts in vim with UTF-8 encoding in both platforms.
Update:I recently learned that

use open qw(:std :locale);

and

use open qw(:locale);

do the same thing.

[Burak]

I think the dosbox uses cp8xx encodings not 12xx ones. That's an annoying problem for all non-latin1 AFAIK :p Dumb dos... And the code sample you gave does not seem to work for my locale (tr). All I get is this warning instead:


Cannot figure out an encoding to use

[massa]

Heh, your OS is not passing the correct locale. You can switch :locale in the use open to:

use open ':std', ':encoding(iso-8859-9)';

(for example, if the encoding you use is that, ':encoding(cp857)' if not)...

[Thelonius]

Add "use utf8;" to the start of your program to tell perl that the file is in encoded in UTF-8.

[Anonymous Monk]

ëÜìâäá