Re^2: (Windows) insert text at cursor in non-owned window

#!perl
use utf8;
use Win32::GuiTest qw(SendKeys);
$Win32::GuiTest::debug = 1;
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SendKeys('Hello from another program! ☻ aáàâāăą');

That was easy. But in the foreground application, I get

Hello from another program! aÄÄÄ

What's that now?

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Welcome to the world of character encodings by Lu. (Hermit) on Aug 18, 2006 at 13:10 UTC
That is the symptom of the use of different character encodings. I suppose, by the look of it, that you sent a string in Unicode. The receiving application either didn't interpret it as Unicode or is not able to render it on screen.	[reply]
Re: Welcome to the world of character encodings by Anonymous Monk on Aug 18, 2006 at 13:56 UTC
I tried it with Xchat, Seamonkey Composer, Opera, DimSum and Unipad. (All written with different toolkits, but Windows application nonetheless.) They exhibit the same symptoms. I'm 100% certain they are unicode capable. I exchange unicode characters freely and without problem among those applications. The problem must be with the Perl program.	[reply]
Re^2: Welcome to the world of character encodings by Lu. (Hermit) on Aug 21, 2006 at 07:16 UTC
Well, then, maybe it comes from Win32::GuiTest, which is not explicitly described as Unicode compliant. Since you're using the utf8 module, you can try (untested) : `SendKeys(utf8::upgrade('$your_string'));` [download] Hope this works.	[reply] [d/l]