I have written a program that makes a concordance out of texts in the Wolof language. This language has acute grave accents, diaresis, and n tildes - all of which work fine. But the Wolof alphabet also include an n with a right backwards tail: ŋ. This is unicode 0143, utf8 C58B.

Every file with this code in it produces messages about Wide character in print at conc.pl line 99, <FILE> line 198993. and the output formatting is messed up for other lines. I am still looking at what this might be, but it only seems to uccur in the files with that character...

I am doing all the "right" things, I think.
My perl version is (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0)
My env has LANG=en_US.UTF-8.
My code has use utf8
My input is opened open (FILE, "<:encoding(utf8)", $filename)
My output is STDOUT

I can get rid of the errors by using binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(utf8)" but the output is still messed up.

Any clues gratefully received...

In reply to A 'special' character in utf8? by telmonks

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