It's hard to believe the one statement prints "absolutely fine", while the other prints garbage.

As it is, your code doesn't even compile. There are several typos, there is no Encode::utf8_encode(), you're calling your OO method as a regular function, you haven't specified what exactly MultiByteChar is, etc.

The following code works fine, in the sense that both prints output the same sequence of octets for $[Ee]ncodedString: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Encode;

sub changeEncoding 
{
    my $stringToEncode = shift;
    my $EncodedString = Encode::encode("utf8", $stringToEncode);

    print "   $EncodedString  ";
    return $EncodedString;
}

sub getEncodedString
{
    my $encodedString = changeEncoding("\x{2345}");

    print $encodedString ;
}

getEncodedString();

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(though changeEncoding is a misnomer, as it doesn't really change the encoding — rather, it simply encodes a string from Perl's internal (decoded) unicode form)

In reply to Re: MultiByte Char handling in perl by Eliya
in thread MultiByte Char handling in perl by Anonymous Monk

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