Re^5: sring encode problem (hexadecimal)

Works for me:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.010;

use strict;
use warnings;

use HTML::Entities qw[encode_entities_numeric];
my $string = "\x{20AC}";
my $encoded = encode_entities_numeric $string;

say $encoded;

__END__
&#x20AC;
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Re^6: sring encode problem (hexadecimal) by courierb (Novice) on Jan 20, 2011 at 14:36 UTC
Hi JavaFan Thank you for your code. you are right. now it is work indeed however in your code line 7 my $string = "\x{20AC}"; Is "\x{20AC}" equvalent to "€";?? why do you use my $string = "\x{20AC}"; instead of $string = "€"; would it be possible to use my $string = "€"; ?? as i would pass value from form to it . these value would be any double byte character. Many thanks	[reply]
Re^7: sring encode problem (hexadecimal) by JavaFan (Canon) on Jan 20, 2011 at 19:31 UTC
They are equivalent. I prefer to use `\x{20AC}` (and `\x` escapes in general) because that's encoding agnostic. If you write `$string = "€";`, I cannot see whether that's UTF-8, or perhaps ISO-8856-15.	[reply] [d/l] [select]