Dear Monks,

a rather silly problem: I'm using the WWW::Dict::Leo::Org module (it gets and parses the content of an online dictionary, HTML in utf8) but I am exeriencing the following encoding problem: I cannot properly show characters such as δόφ.

The script is quite simple: 

 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use WWW::Dict::Leo::Org;
 use Data::Dumper;

 my $leo = new WWW::Dict::Leo::Org();
 my @matches = $leo->translate("test");

 open (OUT, "output.txt");
 binmode(OUT, ":utf8");
 print OUT Dumper(\@matches);
 close OUT;

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If I open output.txt, for example with notepad++, I see that the encoding is right (utf8), but it fails to properly show characters such as δόφ.

If I do not explicitly declare the utf flag (the HTML site is utf8 coded) and I open output.txt, I get a Ansii coded file. δόφ are not correctly displayed. If I change the encoding in notepad++ from ansii to utf8, all characters are displayed right!

Anyone has a suggestion what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Cla

In reply to WWW::Dict::Leo::Org encoding issue by fanticla

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