Re^2: how to get exactly same text from a file


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Re^2: how to get exactly same text from a file

by Anonymous Monk

on Nov 26, 2012 at 13:15 UTC ( [id://1005648]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Ok, my perl is 5.14. this is the garbled character : α╕òα╣ëα╕íα╕óα╕│α╕üα╕╕α╣ëα╕ç I'm getting from the website and I want to convert it into it's real form. Any idea how to do this?

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Re^3: how to get exactly same text from a file
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 26, 2012 at 17:11 UTC

Since you're using HTTP (you should've said so in the beginning!), which encoding do you serve your output with? (the Content-Type header.) Which encoding is the file saved with? (ISO8859-1, 8859-15, UTF-8, UTF-16LE?) What output does perl -MData::Dumper -e '$Data::Dumper::Useqq=1; print Dumper(scalar <>)' test.txt give you? Can you view the file in a terminal? What is your terminal's encoding?

(I'm interested in a Danish-to-Hindi translator, so if your code happens to output the file in Hindi, I'd love to examine it.)

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