Re^2: ucfirst doesn't work if first character of word a special finnish character

Hi!

I tried with this, but still it doesn't work.

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use locale;
use POSIX qw(locale_h);
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'fi_FI');
setlocale(LC_COLLATE, 'fi_FI');

print ucfirst "äbcdef";
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But it prints "-bcdef" i.e "ä" is not being printed correctly.

Do I need to do anything else?

Thanks.

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Re^3: ucfirst doesn't work if first character of word a special finnish character by Mutant (Priest) on Oct 03, 2006 at 12:45 UTC
Are you printing directly to STDOUT? It may just be that wherever you're printing it to is unable to display the character correctly.	[reply]
Re^4: ucfirst doesn't work if first character of word a special finnish character by asfar (Novice) on Oct 03, 2006 at 12:46 UTC
Hi! Yes, I am directly printing it to STDOUT. Can't I do that? Thanks,	[reply]
Re^5: ucfirst doesn't work if first character of word a special finnish character by Mutant (Priest) on Oct 03, 2006 at 13:01 UTC
You can print to STDOUT, but if STDOUT happens to be e.g. a DOS window, it may not display all characters properly. Make sure whatever you're displaying the characters on will normally display that character correctly.	[reply]