The default encoding for Unicode on Windows is UTF-16LE, i.e. little endian, so it would actually be "\xD\0\xA\0". Strictly speaking, Unicode does assign control characters, but that still doesn't guarantee that the logical end-of-line will be the same between systems.

You should start your file with a byte order marker (BOM), which is the same as a zero-width no-break spaces. It is U+FEFF, which in UTF-16LE is "\xFF\xFE".

By the way, what you could have done is create a Unicode file in Notepad, then use Perl to look at the file and see what it has in it. Also note that Perl 5.8 has support for Unicode. See perlunicode and Encode::Unicode.

In reply to Re: Re: New line in Unicode again by Thelonius
in thread New line in Unicode again by donno20

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.