Re: How to read a Unicode file?

Chances are that if ASCII is turning up with interposed zero bytes, your file is in utf16. That is the default encoding on Windows.

Perl 5.8 is pretty smart about unicode.

After Compline,
Zaxo

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Re: Re: How to read a Unicode file? by ibanix (Hermit) on Jan 24, 2004 at 00:05 UTC
Thanks for the UTF-16 tip. I found that `open(FILE, "<:encoding(UTF-16LE)", $file)` did the magic for me. `$ echo '$0 & $0 &' > foo; chmod a+x foo; foo;`	[reply] [d/l] [select]