in reply to Problem with print chr()

Please read The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Your terminal seems to expect in Latin1, while Perl outputs UTF-8. You should have gotten warnings along the lines of Wide character in output, though.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^2: Problem with print chr()
by ccarden (Monk) on Nov 09, 2004 at 21:28 UTC
    I got a warning a couple weeks ago from a friend who saw a wide character in the buffet line, but no, never any such warnings from Perl. Just the ugly output. Thanks for the link!
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