How to print utf8 char in Term::Screen::Win32 ?

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

Hi monks, I have problems on printing utf8 or big5 with Screen::Term::Win32. I am not sure that's the getch() problem, or the puts() ( as well as print() ) problem.

require Term::Screen::Win32;
use utf8;

binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
binmode STDIN, ":utf8";

 $scr = new Term::Screen::Win32;
 unless ($scr) { die " Something's wrong \n"; }
 $scr->clrscr();
 
 my @buff;
 while ( 1 ) {    
    my $k = $scr->getch() ;
    if ( ord ( $k ) == 13 ) { # dump on Enter
        $scr->puts($_) foreach @buff;
        print $/;
        print scalar ( @buff ) ;
    }
    else { push @buff, $k } ;
 }
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I had tried many combinations, like if to use utf8 or not, binmode STD handles or not. use array or direct dump, But whatever it goes, I always get the print widechar warning, and the (Chinese) chars I pushed into the array are incorrectly dumped ever. Anything I missed here?

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Re: How to print utf8 char in Term::Screen::Win32 ? by Anonymous Monk on Mar 18, 2012 at 07:59 UTC
Two things, you need to tell cmd.exe to accept/display utf8, which is one of `Win32::Console::OutputCP( 1253); Win32::Console::ANSI::ScriptCP( 1253 );` [download] and setting console to some truetype font, See Re: Character Encoding and Windows Console woes, chcp 65001 If Term::Screen::Win32 doesn't use STDIN/STDOUT, you need to binmode whatever handle it uses , or you may need to decode the characters/bytes you get from Term::...	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: How to print utf8 char in Term::Screen::Win32 ? by exilepanda (Friar) on Mar 21, 2012 at 02:59 UTC
Thank you very much! As you said, things go weir when I am not using STDIN. Whatever code page I use, and whatever long char I type, the getch give me 65533... =( Still investigation..	[reply]