donno20 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,
I want to process a unicode file (2 bytes per character) and want to capture some text I wanted. However I cannot get it right with open(), is open() support unicode ? Howabout read(), is it only read byte-by-byte only ? Any other module or API should I use ?
Thanks for help and get me to the right direction.

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Re: Process Unicode File
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Apr 21, 2003 at 06:32 UTC
    perldoc perlunicode

    MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!
    I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6x+5.8x. I take requests.
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