On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 20:03:08 +0000,
unicode(_at_)ftumsh(_dot_)demon(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk said:
> binmode FH1, ":raw";
Make this
binmode FH1, ":utf8";
> I don't understand what the [UTF8 "\x{c4}"]
"\x{x4}" is valid perl notation for the Unicode character 0xc4.
% perl -le '
my $data = "\xC4";
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
print $data ;
' | od -t x1
0000000 c3 84 0a
0000003
> What's worse is that the output file contains xc4 and not
> the utf-8 sequence I expected.
Because you chose :raw.
Hope this helps,
--
andreas
