Fellow monks,
I wrote a simple script that runs on ini files with localisable content, to check for errors, etc.
All it does for example is replaces:
the letter a with ä the letter o with ô
The script works fine for Latin characters, dutifully making its replacements where an a or an o was found.No problems there, so being brave I thought to myself, what the hell, I'll give it a go with Japanese and see what happens....not much
What did happen was that I kept on getting the error message 
Use of uninitialized value in substitution iterator at line 52
Use of uninitialized value in substitution iterator at line 52

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I'm fairly new to perl, and was wondering why this was occurring, as well as a possible workaround. And also is there any information out there on Japanese language support for perl newbie? I see in CPAN that there's a module called Unicode::Japanese, could this be used?
Thanks in advance,
Martymart

In reply to Error message in script with Japanese characters by martymart

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