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Hi In Sweden we don't have any swedish forum.I have looked the man page but don't understand them where they talk about unicoding.Can someone please help to make this script writing the apropriate letters? 
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w

use encoding "utf8";  
              
use strict;
my @a=("a"..."ö");
for (@a ) {


print  $_\n;
}

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Re: How to convert this to swedish characters?
by varian (Chaplain) on Feb 08, 2007 at 10:12 UTC
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      Also note that the '..' operator does not handle the special character as one might expect.
      Try the below alternative and you will find that it shows just fine: 
      #!/usr/bin/perl -w

use encoding "utf8";

use strict;
my $start=ord("a");
my $finish=ord("ö");
# use ord value to properly fill the list
my @a=($start..$finish);
for (@a ) {
    print  chr($_)," $_\n";
}
# show that list construct works fine without '..'
@a=("a","ö");
print "$_\n" foreach (@a);

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        Thank You for your fast reply, but it didn't work. Error: 
        Malformed UTF-8 character (1 byte, need 4, after start byte 0xf6) at .
+/tryitut line 7.

Tried also with use encoding "iso-8859-1";
It made my question more clear to me
That worked, but I don't want anything else than the swedish alphabet 
+to be printed on the screen not the number represent a letter or anyt
+hing different at all.
How can I do that?

I have perl version:

perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i486-linux

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