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

Can anybody guide me how to print angstrom Å symbol in Perl?

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Re: angstrom symbol in Perl?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 06, 2010 at 23:47 UTC

    Print to where? Console, GUI, web?

    • To a (Windows) console: print chr(143);
    • To a (Windows) GUI: print chr(194);
    • In an html document: print 'Å
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Re: angstrom symbol in Perl?
by james2vegas (Chaplain) on Apr 07, 2010 at 00:03 UTC
    something like:
    #!/usr/bin/perl
use charnames ':full';

# s/STDOUT/$filehandle/g
binmode STDOUT,  ":utf8";
print STDOUT "\N{ANGSTROM SIGN}";

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Re: angstrom symbol in Perl?
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 07, 2010 at 00:18 UTC
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