On 2007-11-13 19:56, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
$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.
Can you elaborate more on the subtle difference between:
binmode(STDIN, ":utf8");
binmode(STDIN, ":encoding(UTF-8)");
besides that "UTF-8" is narrower than "utf8", as explained in the
man page of "Encode" (section: "UTF-8 vs. utf8").
For output, some codepoints allowed by "utf8" would raise an error in
"UTF-8".
For input, both get the correct characters, assuming the input
bytestream was indeed correct. Or am I missing something?
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