Re^2: Malformed UTF-8 character

Thanks for this. Do I have the use statements right?

use utf8;
use Encode;
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
use open ':encoding(utf8)';
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I'm not sure quite what they do or what the difference is. I understand that use utf8 is to save the code page in utf-8, that use Encode is to provide a utility to encode and decode, but I'm not sure what binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";or use open ':encoding(utf8)'; do?

Regards

Steve

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Re^3: Malformed UTF-8 character by Eliya (Vicar) on Apr 30, 2011 at 13:45 UTC
I understand that `use utf8` is to save the code page in utf-8 Not really sure what you mean by that... but `use utf8` tells Perl that the source code (string literals, etc.) is encoded in UTF-8. So you shouldn't use it if that's not the case for your script. `binmode STDOUT, ":utf8"` sets the utf8 PerlIO layer for STDOUT, which tells Perl that you want UTF-8 encoded output for that file handle. `use open ':encoding(utf8)'` declares the default layer for I/O streams, i.e. you don't have to explicitly specify the respective layer when you open a file. See the open pragma for the details.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Malformed UTF-8 character by Steve_BZ (Chaplain) on Apr 30, 2011 at 20:03 UTC
Thanks for this. Regards Steve	[reply]