Can someone point me to a comprehensive guide to encodings?

I'm still looking for that one, too. Nevertheless, don't expect too much; the biggest problem as far as I can tell for me comes in the variety of forms the related issues show up.

It isn't a Perl problem, it isn't a system/OS/libs problem, it isn't a setup problem, it isn't an I/O problem: it is more then a bit of all of these.

Once you get your Perl skills sharpened to know what's what, you'll still might be surprized at times.

Make sure you use a Unicode editor when looking at code or data that should contain Unicode characters; I'm not sure Vim is your best friend here. Take care: if you see correct cyrillic chars when editing, this might already be a sign that the data is _not_ Unicode. This proved to be the biggest issue for me personally so far: to be sure about what is in the file/data as opposed to how it looks (in editors, web pages, files, etc.)

And be prepared: other people are confused too, and it won't be an exception to get files/mails/HTML pages where the 'announced' encoding is one, whereas the actual content is a real soup of both Unicode/non-Unicode characters.

I hope, oh, I really really hope that all these headaches will disappear as soon as virtually everyone and everything will line up to Unicode. But I'm afraid that will still take quite a while.

In reply to Re: I/O encoding question by Krambambuli
in thread I/O encoding question by akho

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