Re: Re: Re: Character Encoding and Windows Console woes

This changed in 5.8.1 (from perlrun)

-C <number/list>
The -C flag controls some Unicode of the Perl Unicode features. <<Their typo not mine>>
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(In Perls earlier than 5.8.1 the -C switch was a Win32-only switch that enabled the use of Unicode-aware ``wide system call'' Win32 APIs. This feature was practically unused, however, and the command line switch was therefore ``recycled''.)

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Character Encoding and Windows Console woes by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Feb 17, 2004 at 05:08 UTC
Thanks for pointing that out. The html docs on one machine must not have been updated properly, since it's Perl 5.8.2. (I noticed that Win32::API is missing from the index pane, even though the module is present, so this is the second anomoly today). On another machine, I see a different -C documentation.	[reply]