November 2008
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Perl UTF-8 Hell And How To Find Your Way Out
Character encoding are never easy to deal with. Some trouble has to do with how your tools interpret the encoding. For instance a unix terminal (in my case gterm) might try to “fix” an encoding because its thinks it knows what is best. Or Data::Dumper might handle dumping high order utf8 in its own unique way. On top of the when dealing with external data sources that vary in...