Re: Big5 scalar needs to be UTF-8

Thank you for this.
I can't find the Encode module - do I need to upgrade
from PERL 5.6.0 or can I find a compatible version
somewhere ?

Thanks,
Tim

--- Autrijus Tang <autrijus(_at_)autrijus(_dot_)org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:54:32PM -0800, Tim Scott
> wrote:
> > The only hurdle I can't get started with is how to
> convert the Big5
> > scalar into UTF-8.
> my $ustring = Encode::decode(big5 => $big5_string);
>
> > I've read various exciting things about how
> PERL5.8 can read a big5
> > stream from a file (using something like "<
> :encoding(big5)" in the
> > 'open' call) but this doesn't help me to convert
> the scalar ... does
> > it ?
> Well, it does, if you want to get unneccessariily
> fancy:
>
> $ustring = do {
>     local $/;
>     open $fh, '<:encoding(big5)', \$big5_string;
>     <$fh>;
> }
>
> /Autrijus/
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