Re: MP3::Tag encoding problem

`perldoc diagnostics'
`perldoc splain'

$ echo Wide character in print at ./do.pl line 78. |splain
Wide character in print at ./do.pl line 78.  (#1)
    (W utf8) Perl met a wide character (>255) when it wasn't expecting
    one.  This warning is by default on for I/O (like print).  The eas
+iest
    way to quiet this warning is simply to add the :utf8 layer to the
    output, e.g. binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'.  Another way to turn off the
    warning is to add no warnings 'utf8'; but that is often closer to
    cheating.  In general, you are supposed to explicitly mark the
    filehandle with an encoding, see open and perlfunc/binmode.
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Re^2: MP3::Tag encoding problem by mfearby (Initiate) on Sep 21, 2008 at 09:27 UTC
Thanks for the info. I did try "binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';" at the top of my script but it made no difference. I didn't think a simple "o" with an umlaut was unicode anyway. Isn't it a simple ASCII character? Maybe I shouldn't even be specifying utf8 the way I am? Anyway, I'm obviously missing something or I'm on the wrong track because with MP3::Tag, printing stuff with such characters results in black diamonds where as printing the same information, from the same MP3 file, retrieved using MP3::Info does not.	[reply]
Re^3: MP3::Tag encoding problem by Anonymous Monk on Sep 22, 2008 at 01:19 UTC
I did try "binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';" at the top of my script but it made no difference. Yes it did, it got rid of Wide character in print at ./do.pl line 78.	[reply]