Wide character - memGzip

horrendo has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

I'm using Compress::Zlib::memGzip to compress a chunk of text containing unicode characters. I have PERL_UNICODE set to S, but I'm getting a runtime error -

Wide character in memGzip at ./tst-utf8.plx line 195

This is with version 2.012 of Compress::Zlib on Perl 5.8.8 on Ubuntu 8.04.

I don't get this error running the same program against version 1.42 of Compress::Zlib.

Any clues?

Thanks,

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Re: Wide character - memGzip by Joost (Canon) on Aug 05, 2008 at 11:06 UTC
memGzip only supports binary data / single-byte characters. You probably should wrap the zip/unzip in encode/decode calls: `use Encode qw(encode decode); my $zipped = memGzip(encode("utf8",$string)); my $unzipped = decode("utf8",memGunzip($zipped));` [download] "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Wide character - memGzip by horrendo (Sexton) on Aug 10, 2008 at 23:04 UTC
That did it. Thanks very much.	[reply]

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