Problem in Enforcing utf8 coding for output

[schwertleite]

Hi,

I have recently upgraded the Perl version on the my machine from 5.6.1
to 5.8.7 And it seems that thereafter, the files generated by my
certain localise.pl has started failing to output files into the ANSI
code instead of ideal UTF-8 encoding.

Here is the certain line that I have managed to create the correct
utf8 output beforehand

my $output = new IO::File (">$file");

I have tried the following:_

a) my $output = new IO::File(">$file")->utf8->all;
b) my $output = new IO::File(">$file");
$output->utf8->all;
c) my $output = new IO::File(">:utf8",$file);
d) my $output = new IO::File(">:encoding(utf8),$file);
e) use encoding "utf8";

with absolutely no luck.

I am really a newbie to Perl who has exhausted all imagination on the
issue. Therefore any help from the Perl gurus out there will be very
appreciated.


Thanks,
Mency

 

[Mumia W.]

Hi,

I have recently upgraded the Perl version on the my machine from 5.6.1
to 5.8.7 And it seems that thereafter, the files generated by my
certain localise.pl has started failing to output [utf8 ...]

The POD (documentation) for IO::File says this:

METHODS
open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
open( FILENAME, IOLAYERS )

And since ':utf8' is an IO layer, I suspect that the correct invocation
would be this:

my $output = IO::File->new('output.txt','>:utf8');

And I tested it, and this is correct.