Greetings,

I have what I thought would be a simple issue. I'm reading a YAML file full of user names, email, phone, etc. Many are French-Canadian, and have accented characters. In the file I'm reading, it looks like:

jean-fran\xe7ois chr\xe9tien

I know that \xe7 is "ç", and \xe9 is "é", etc., but it prints to the terminal as just \xe7, \xe9.

I've looked up all sorts of stuff: use utf8; use Encode; binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"), blah blah blah.

I just want to print the stupid messed up characters the way they're supposed to look; for the love of God, please, help me.

(The next step, of course, is to forbid our French-Canadian employees to use ridiculous non-english characters when creating user accounts - but one thing at a time).

Regards & God Bless,

Sister Mary Guacamole

In reply to print unicode characters from hex format by sistermaryguacamole

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