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I am sending utf 8 string as command line argument to my perl script. But when I read this argument, I do not get this string as desired. How to read utf 8 command line arguments in perl. I want this to be done using windows as operating system. Regards.
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Re: Read utf 8 command line on windows enviornment
by almut (Canon) on Oct 12, 2009 at 11:21 UTC

    You could try  perl -CA ...

    From perlrun: 

    -C [number/list]
    ...
    A    32    the @ARGV elements are expected to be strings encoded i
+n UTF-8

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Re: Read utf 8 command line on windows enviornment
by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 12, 2009 at 10:51 UTC
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