in reply to "Unrecognized character" stops perl cold
I find this very annoying also. It's because the perldoc renderer is doing silly things like replacing regular '-' dash/hyphen characters with chr(226) (instead of the normal chr(45) character) and replacing single ticks with the "prettier" version of the single quote. I have not been able to figure out how to get this to display properly without switching completely to raw or text mode.
My solution was to bind a key in vim to run this silly little script. So whenever I paste some code from some perldoc I'm viewing, I run this over the code.
#!/usr/bin/perl -n s/‐/-/g; s/−/-/g; s/’/'/g; print;
I notice it renders oddly in the perlmonks node, but you get the idea. I literally just copy and pasted the offending symbol into this script.
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naChoZ
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Re^2: "Unrecognized character" stops perl cold
by andyford (Curate) on Jan 22, 2008 at 20:53 UTC | |
by naChoZ (Curate) on Jan 23, 2008 at 20:17 UTC |