Dear Monks,

I have been using Compress::Bzip2 to uncompress & compress files for a while now. However, now I need to work with files in unicode.

I know about 

binmode(STDIN, ":utf8");
binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
binmode(STDERR, ":utf8");

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and open FILE, '<:utf8', $file when reading from/writing to normal text files, but I could not find anything with Google in this case.

Is there a way to tell Perl the files are in Unicode when reading from/writing to them using 

my $bzIn = bzopen($in, "rb") or die "Can't open stdin: $bzerrno\n";
my $bzOut = bzopen($out, "wb") or die "Can't open stdout: $bzerrno\n";

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Am I going to have to switch to another package for compression, provided I find one that can deal with unicode, or am I going to have to do it the old fashioned way by decompressing first and then processing the plain text files?

Any suggestion here?

In reply to Unicode in bz2 compressed files by Anonymous Monk

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