in reply to Unicode in bz2 compressed files

perlunitut: Unicode in Perl#Decoding 

use Encode;
...
while( my $bytesread = $bz->bzreadline(my $line) ){
    $bytesread ==-1 and warn sprintf "Error: $bz->bzreadline : %d : %s
+", $bz->bzerror, $bz->bzerror;
    $line = decode('utf8',  $line );
    ...
}

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See also perluniintro, Encode...

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Re^2: Unicode in bz2 compressed files
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 05, 2011 at 08:51 UTC

    Thank you, wise friend.

    Although I had read the tutorials, I hadn't quite understood what this manual encoding and decoding was about, and how it applied in my case. Your example has made it clear to me.

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