Hi Monks, I have this problem I can't seem to solve. I use Perl 5.8 under Windows XP. I want to read a Unicode UTF16 file, do some processing, and write out again Unicode UTF-16.

I can't print out a proper new line. I tried 'pack', 'chr' (using the Unicode codes, not the "\r" "\n" names), and many other options. Using an hexadecimal editor I see I always end up printing out "0D 00 0D 0A 00" and not "0D 00 0A 00". It seems that no matter how I refer to the line feed character using the 000A code, a "0D" byte gets automatically stuck in front of it. Here is my (non-working) snippet: 

use strict;

my $infile=shift;
my $outfile=shift;
open IN, "<:encoding(UTF-16LE)", $infile or die;
open OUT, ">:encoding(UTF-16LE)", $outfile or die;

binmode OUT, ':utf8';
while (<IN>) {
    chomp;
    print OUT "$_";
    #also tried:
    #print OUT "\x{0D}\x{0A}";
    my $r=pack("U", 0x000D); 
    my $n=pack("U", 0x000A); 
    print OUT $r;
    print OUT $n;
    #also tried:
    #my $n=chr(0x000D); etc.
    
}

close(IN);
close(OUT);

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Any idea? Thanks in advance

In reply to newline in unicode under windows by snaporaz

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