Name is \x{c384}stan\x{c3a5} Bruk AB\n UTF String:Name is ì
U+C384 and U+C3A5 are most definitely not what you're after.
The unicode codepoint U+00C4 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS) is
the two bytes C3 and 84 when encoded to UTF-8, but you should never need
to manually enter this. \x in Perl takes codepoint numbers, and C384 is
not the codepoint for the character that you want.
Likewise, the codepoint U+00E5 (LATIN SMALL LITTER A WITH RING ABOVE) is
not at all like U+C3A5, even though the UTF-8 encoding is C3 A5.
Please do yourself a big favor and learn about the difference between
Unicode and UTF-8.
(real name in string is 'Östanå Bruk AB' (Swedish...)
What am I doing wrong?
Well, "use encoding" at least. Remove it. You don't need it, and it's
broken anyway.
use FileHandle;
FileHandle is superseded by IO::Handle.
my $utfstring = "Name is \x{c384}stan\x{c3a5} Bruk AB\n";
print 'Name is \x{c384}stan\x{c3a5} Bruk AB\n' . " UTF String:$utfstring";
Just wrong. These numbers are not the right codepoints, and the result
is a Unicode string, not a utf8 string, so the name "utfstring" is bad
too.
my $namedstring = "Name is \N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH
DIAERESIS}stan\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE} Bruk AB\n";
This results in a proper Unicode string.
print 'Name is \N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS}stan\N{LATIN SMALL
LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE} Bruk AB' . " Named String: $namedstring";
You shouldn't print text without specifying the output encoding. Match
the encoding of your terminal for correct display. e.g.
binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)";
$rv = open (OUT1, ">", "sample1");
Encodingless open is not suited for text output.
$rv = open (OUT2, ">:utf8", "sample2");
Should work well. Remember that you shouldn't use :utf8 for input. In
the general case, :encoding(UTF-8) is safest.
$rv = open (OUT3, '>:encoding(iso-8859-1)', 'sample3');
Good.
print OUT3 $namedstring;
Also good. Does this not work as expected?
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