I never disputed the possibility of problems with format conversions. The topic never even came up.

And I believe that this "jump" involves the source files and input format.

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

Note that Perl understands UTF-8 source files if you use use utf8;. (Since it seems to matter to you, the Hindi characters would be 3 bytes or more in such files.)

But I say that there are complications with source database files.

I'm not sure what you mean by this either. But "source" means reading, right? If you were able to store the character in it in the first place, there's no reason you wouldn't be able to read them back.

In reply to Re^12: Perl Modules for handling Non English text by ikegami
in thread Perl Modules for handling Non English text by paragkalra

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