Hello everybody!

I programmed a shell-application in C for Linux wich conjugated japanese verbs using strings functions.

Wait wait! It's about perl, I swear.

I'd like to implement a function that converts hiragana into romaji, I mean,　さむらい　ー[function]ー＞　samurai

As it's a hard job for my lazyness, I thought someone would have programmed this before: and I was obviously right. But the one I liked was written in Perl. One day I'll do it in C, but meanwhile I need your help!

This is the project: Lingua::JA::Moji
And the function I'm interested in is: kana2romaji

Okay, finish of the presentation. It's been two days since I started flirting with Perl. But by now I can't afford learning enough to solve it without help.

What I want:
1 Read a text of n lines, each with one hiragana word
2 Convert it by kana2romaji
3 Print it the same way but in romaji in another file

The code I have:

use Lingua::JA::Moji qw/kana2romaji romaji2kana/;
#use utf8;
#use Encode;

if( $#ARGV < 1 ){
  die("Not enough arguments\n");
}
open(INP, "<$ARGV[0]") or die("Cannot open file '$ARGV[0]' for reading
+\n");
open(OUTP, ">$ARGV[1]") or die("Cannot open file '$ARGV[1]' for writin
+g\n");
my @hira = <INP>;
print OUTP kana2romaji (@hira);
close INP;
close OUTP;
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But kana2romaji complains the input is not in Unicode, more accurately, it complains the Unicode flag is OFF. I found some options to solve the problem, but I haven't been able to manage it successfully:

Using Encode library

use Encode;
@hira = Encode::decode( 'utf8', @hira );#if
encode('utf8', decode('utf8', @hira), @hira));
@hira = decode("utf-8", @hira );
binmode @hira, ':encoding(utf8)';
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Using utf8 library

use utf8;
_utf8_on(@hira);
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I know more or less the differences between each function, but I get lost. The input file was created with gedit, so I guess it'll be unicoded... I got the ideas mainly from Encode

The program complain:
"Input is not flagged as unicode: conversion will fail. at file.pl line x"

I should pass some parameters to kana2romaji in order to get an injective function (I mean word to word, and not word to x possible words), but that's a detail.
I expect you will help me with my flash-travel to Perl, I'm sure that if I suceed I'll come back later :)
Thank you guys!

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