Hi wizards, I seek your wisdom. I am running Active Perl 5.14 on Windows 7.
I am trying to write a program that will read-in a conversion table, then work on a file and replace certain patterns by other patterns - all of the above in Unicode (UTF-8). Here is the beginning of the program:
 #!/usr/local/bin/perl
 # Load a conversion table from CONVTABLE to %ConvTable.
 # Then find matches in a file and convert them.
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Encode;
 use 5.014;
 use utf8;
 use autodie; 
 use warnings    qw< FATAL  utf8     >;
 use open        qw< :std  :utf8     >;
 use charnames   qw< :full >;
 use feature     qw< unicode_strings >;
 
 my ($i,$j,$InputFile, $OutputFile,$word,$from,$to,$linetoprint);
 my (@line, @lineout); 
 my %ConvTable;    # Conversion hash
 print 'Conversion table: opening file: E:\My Documents\Perl\Conversio
+n table.txt'."\n";
 my $sta= open (CONVTABLE, "<:encoding(utf8)", 'E:\My Documents\Perl\C
+onversion table.txt');
 binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';    # output should be in UTF-8
 # Load conversion hash
  while (<CONVTABLE>) {
     chomp;
     print "$_\n"; # etc ...
# etc ...

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It turns out that at this point, it says:
wide character in print at (eval 155)E:/Active Perl/lib/Perl5DB.pl:640
+]line 2, <CONVTABLE> line 1, etc...

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Why is that? I think I've gone through all the necessary prescriptions for correct handling of Unicode, decoding and encoding into UTF-8?
And how to fix it?
TIA
Helen
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