Re^2: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x96, with no preceding start byte)

Thanks for your input.the issue here is the input is in utf-8 format. In my code we have two statements$data,$data2.If you observer them there is a difference in both the statements.

In the first statement '-' is printing as it is after decoded.where as in second statement '–' is not printing as it is after decoded.'–' is replaced with another character like ^. I need to print the second statement as it is.

Thank you.

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Re^3: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x96, with no preceding start byte) by Laurent_R (Canon) on Aug 07, 2015 at 12:49 UTC
It seems to work for me: `$ perl -E 'use utf8; my $data = "text - abcd"; say "$data";' text - abcd $ $ perl -E 'use utf8; my $data = "text – abcd"; print "$data";' Wide character in print at -e line 1. text – abcd $ $ perl -E 'use utf8; my $data = "text – abcd"; binmode STDOUT, ":utf8 +"; say "$data";' text – abcd` [download] It might be hard to see the difference on the screen, but I zoomed on the output and I can confirm that I have really printed two different species of dash.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x96, with no preceding start byte) by Anonymous Monk on Aug 07, 2015 at 09:13 UTC
the code you posted does no printing -- did you remember to binmode?	[reply]
Re^4: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x96, with no preceding start byte) by Yllar (Novice) on Aug 07, 2015 at 09:50 UTC
I am sorry for that. Here is the out put for the above statement. text - abcd text ΤΗτ abcd If you see here.. the second statement is printing weird characters.Insted of printing 'text – abcd' it is priting 'text ΤΗτ abcd'. Any help would be appreciated greatly. Thank you	[reply]