I just switch to a new server that runs redhat 8 and perl 5.8....
I am reading a file into $buf using 
while(read(filehandle,$buf,60*57){
$unf .=encode_base64($buf);
}

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This has worked fine for me in the past... as 57 bytes is
equal to one line of base64 code...

But now i keep getting Wide Characters in Subroutine and
perl dies.


Now i created a smaller script....
#!/usr/bin/perl
 use MIME::Base64;
$imgpath = "/home/freexxxm/public_htmlews_photos";
 # Ed. - rot13ed to make firewall safe
 $cat="Nany-Frk";
 open (LOG, ">> log2");
opendir (DM, "/home/usr/public_htmlews_photos") or print  "$today <b>E
+RROR</b> couldn't get contents of <br>dir $!\n" ;<br>
    @files=grep { /\.jpg/ } readdir(DM);
    closedir(DM);
    $img=$files[rand(@files)];
    while ($seen){$img++};
    $img;
print  "$img $!\n";
open(FILE, "$imgpath/099.jpg") or print LOG "$today <b>ERROR</b> openi
+ng image while posting $!\n";<br>
while (read(FILE, $buf, 60*57)) {
     print LOG"$buf$!";
$unf .=encode_base64($buf);
}
print "$unf";
close FILE;
close LOG;

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I have run this 2 way one way i just looked at the print
out of $buf which dies partiall thru with "Malformed
Uft-8 character" and ive run it the way the code
shows now ... and the encode_base64 give me the
same "Wide Character in subroutine" error. Please
could someone explain what this is and whats causing
it ... and how to fix this....

update (broquaint): added formatting and rot13ed the contents of $cat for naive firewalls

In reply to UFT-8 Error by Antec1981

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