I'm using Term::ReadLine in my application for interaction with user. All program data are stored in utf-8 encoded external file and all operations should be done in unicode. I want to use binmode(STDIN, $locale_encoding) to do conversion for user input and so for output to terminal, but it seems does not work at least for input. It seems that whole input is in original encoding (iso-8859-2 in my case) instead of utf-8.

I've got error messages for all characters (not preset in iso-8859-1) when I want print readed value. Eg.

"\x{00e8}" does not map to iso-8859-2 at ../utf_test.pl line 18.

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What is wrong?

Here is small piece of my code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#

use strict;
use utf8;
use Term::ReadLine;

my $locale_encoding = 'iso-8859-2';
binmode(STDIN, ":encoding($locale_encoding)");
binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding($locale_encoding)");

my $term   = new Term::ReadLine 'test CLI', *STDIN, *STDOUT;
my $prompt = "test> ";

while( defined ($_ = $term->readline($prompt)) ) {
    if($_) {
    last if $_ =~ /^\s*quit/i;
    print $_, "\n";
    }
}

exit 0;

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In reply to perl 5.8.0, Term::ReadLine and input encoding by ph0enix

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