I recently switched from using Active State perl on a Windows box to a Linux machine. At first my perl scripts (I'm a heavy user of regexp) seemed to work fine. But as I started processing more text files ("writer" html files from Libre Office) and started adding more regexp code to my script, I started noticing weird goings-on.

I get bizarre characters Like a strange †instead of a dash. So I thought that it may have to do with encoding, but wan't too worried if it's just an occasional weird character popping up. But then my regexp code itself seemed hay-wire -- matching things it shouldn't.

I am very good at regexp language (the main stay of my toolset :) But I am so confused about encoding. I've tried different parameters at the end of my regexp statements, like /u or /a or /d And I've tried 
use utf8;
use Encode;

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And for my filehandles: 
binmode(FILE, ":utf8");

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Can you please help? I believe my ignorance when it comes to encoding is getting in the way. I simply want my regexp to work the way it used to on a Windows box. If it means I can only use ascii, that's fine with me. I just need to know how :)

Thanks!

In reply to Regexp and Linux (is it utf issue?) by gwene

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