in reply to Another utf-8 decoding problem

First of all, please find out which encoding your terminal/console accepts (see for example Encodings and Unicod in Perl for a short guide, and how to set up clean UTF-8 environment).

Then decode all incoming data, and before printing anything, set up an IO layer: 

binmode STDOUT, ":encoding($encoding_supported_by_your_terminal)":

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If you debug output, use hexdump -c - it never lies (as opposed to your terminal, which often does).

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Re^2: Another utf-8 decoding problem
by DreamT (Pilgrim) on Oct 11, 2010 at 11:51 UTC
    Thanks,

    Regarding the environment, I'm unfortunately forced to use iso-encoding, since the target environment uses it. So it feels like i need to present the data in this encoding regardless of the input format?
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      When you use Perl for text processing, you always use perl's internal encoding for string representation (which is either iso-8859-1 or UTF-8, depending on the presence of the UTF-8 flag).

      So, you decode input data, encode output data. That's always the same workflow, independently of what your output encoding ist.

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        Ok. So I should encode the data from utf-8 and decode it to iso? Why do I then have to set binmode if I have correct encoding of my string? This is greek to me, sorry_:-)
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