Re: Unicode encoding

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Re^2: Unicode encoding by Burak (Chaplain) on May 14, 2009 at 11:00 UTC
Actually you can change the code page to utf8 for cmd.exe (for $^O >= win2k): `system(chcp => 65001, '2>nul', '1>nul')` [download] But you'll also need a font to display the chars :) Lucida Console can't display everything AFAIK. However, it'll be enough for your local code page. It's good enough for Turkish for example.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Unicode encoding by Juerd (Abbot) on Jun 21, 2009 at 23:40 UTC
But you'll also need a font to display the chars :) Lucida Console can't display everything AFAIK. No font contains every glyph that Unicode supports. That's why good software supports falling back to other fonts; cmd.exe is not good software in this regard :)	[reply]
Re^3: Unicode encoding by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 22, 2009 at 04:12 UTC
Your `system` call is wrong. You're telling Perl to pass '`2>nul`' and '`1>nul`' as parameters to `chcp` while they only make sense in a command passed to the shell. The call should be `system('chcp 65001 2>nul 1>nul')` [download] which is short for `system(cmd => ( '/c' => 'chcp 65001 2>nul 1>nul' ) )` [download] If you want to avoid calling the shell, you need the following: `open(my $fh, '>', 'nul') or die "open nul: $!\n"; my $pid = open3( undef, # Use parent's STDIN '>&'.fileno($fh), # STDOUT = nul undef, # STDERR = STDOUT chcp => 65001, ); waitpid($pid, 0);` [download] Now, `system` is buggy on Windows, so your code might actually function as you intend it to. But if it does, you're relying on a bug in Perl.	[reply] [d/l] [select]