Greetings

I am using Perl and Tk to read text from a .txt file (Dos/Windows ANSI) and display it, edit it and save it back to a .txt file. The file is in French, and contains the character œ. The œ will not show up in the TK window (it disappears), but when I save the text back out, it shows up in the saved txt file. So, it seems to be there, just not be displayed. I wonder if it may be a font issue (?) but I've tried many standard fonts: courier, Arial, helvetica. I am already changing the system's Locale to French. Any thoughts? I want to avoid Unicode if possible.

Thanks in advance

Here's some sample code:


use warnings;
use strict;


use Tk;
use Tk::TextUndo;
my $main = MainWindow->new;

my $middle = $main->Frame(-borderwidth=>2,-relief=>'groove')->grid(-ro
+w=>0,-column=>1,-sticky=>'nsew');
my $middlebox = $middle->TextUndo (
                           -font => 'arial 10',
                           -wrap => 'word',
                           -spacing2 => 10,
                           -spacing3 => 30,
                           -takefocus => 1,
                           -background => 'white',

                           -width => 70,
                           -height => 10,

                           )->grid(-row=>0, -column=>0, -sticky=>'nsew
+');

$middlebox->insert('end',"This is a test of the œ character");

MainLoop;

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