Re^3: length() miscounting UTF8 characters?

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use open IO => ':utf8', ':std';
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Re^4: length() miscounting UTF8 characters? by AppleFritter (Vicar) on Apr 27, 2014 at 22:59 UTC
Wonderful! That really works - hardly Perl at its dwimmiest, but I'll take what I can get. Thanks so much again!	[reply]
Re^5: length() miscounting UTF8 characters? by choroba (Cardinal) on Apr 27, 2014 at 23:06 UTC
You first applied the settings to standard streams, then changed them. I first changed them, then applied the changed settings to the standard streams. لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply]