Re: Encode fails to install on Win32 5.6

I thought support for non-ASCII characters was only added in 5.8, so decoding a string it next to impossible in 5.6. Changing the encoding of a string is possible, of course. Text::Iconv can do that, but since it relies on an external library, it might be tricky to install in Windows.

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Re^2: Encode fails to install on Win32 5.6 by belg4mit (Prior) on Aug 17, 2009 at 19:29 UTC
No, it was added in 5.6.0, and remained in various states of broken until 5.8 perldelta56 `-- In Bob We Trust, All Others Bring Data.`	[reply]
Re^3: Encode fails to install on Win32 5.6 by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 17, 2009 at 19:33 UTC
It had the `UTF8` flag? Ah ok. My Windows machine (which has 5.6) is down at the moment, so I couldn't test. It's been a long time since I touched 5.6 Update: Now that it's back up, `>c:\progs\perl561\bin\perl -MDevel::Peek -wle"$x=chr(0x2660); print le +ngth $x; Dump $x" 1 SV = PV(0x183eb18) at 0x1832a0c REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x182013c "\342\231\240"\0 CUR = 3 LEN = 4` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Encode fails to install on Win32 5.6 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 18, 2009 at 01:13 UTC
Text::Iconv can do that, but since it relies on an external library, it might be tricky to install in Windows. There's a ppm for Text-Iconv-1.2 available for 5.6 at the uwinnipeg rep: `ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/Text-Iconv.ppd` [download] Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]