I'm trying to get unicode to work in perl. When I do the 'textbook' example:

kloro@debian:~$ perl -e'binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); print chr(0x263a)'

I get garbage, not a smiley face, i.e.:

âº

My environment is:


kloro@debian:~$ env
SSH_AGENT_PID=3589
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
CVSROOT=:ext:kloro@lotsaclocks.com:/home/bkovitz/cvsroot
WINDOWID=4194356
LC_ALL=en_US
USER=kloro
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:s o=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01r=40;31; 01:su=37;41:sg=30;43:tw=30;42w=34;42:st=37;44:ex =01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=0 1;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:* .gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.ja r=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp =01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=0 1;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01 ;35:*.png=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01; 35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:* .xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.flac=01;35:*.mp3=01;35:*. mpc=01;35:*.ogg=01;35:*.wav=01;35:
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-ZVhlTs3526/agent.3526
USERNAME=kloro
DESKTOP_SESSION=IceWM
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/home/kloro/bin
GDM_XSERVER_LOCATION=local
PWD=/home/kloro
lang=en_us.utkk
LANG=EN_US.UTF8
GDMSESSION=IceWM
HOME=/home/kloro
SHLVL=1
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
PYTHONPATH=.
LOGNAME=kloro
CVS_RSH=ssh
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-BCGb2jBRcV,guid=90be2048635c502104dbc60046b8b5f1
DISPLAY=:0.0
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
XAUTHORITY=/tmp/.gdm5HJEWT
_=/usr/bin/env
kloro@debian:~$





Thanks in advance,

tom arnall

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:01:04PM -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> I'm trying to get unicode to work in perl. When I do the 'textbook' example:
>
> kloro@debian:~$ perl -e'binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); print chr(0x263a)'
>
> I get garbage, not a smiley face, i.e.:
>
> âº
>
> My environment is:
...
> LC_ALL=en_US
...
> LANG=EN_US.UTF8
...
> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8

Did you set LC_ALL? It is not set by default (at least not on my
system). What is the output of locale (and why is your kmail sending
ISO-8852-1 mails?)

Regards,
Andrei
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:01:04PM -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> I'm trying to get unicode to work in perl. When I do the 'textbook' example:
>
> kloro@debian:~$ perl -e'binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); print chr(0x263a)'
>
> I get garbage, not a smiley face, i.e.:
>
> âº
>
> My environment is:
...
> LC_ALL=en_US
...
> LANG=EN_US.UTF8
...
> LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8

Did you set LC_ALL? It is not set by default (at least not on my
system). What is the output of locale (and why is your kmail sending
ISO-8852-1 mails?)

Regards,
Andrei
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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On Tuesday 07 August 2007 23:16, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:01:04PM -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> > I'm trying to get unicode to work in perl. When I do the 'textbook'
> > example:
> >
> > kloro@debian:~$ perl -e'binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); print chr(0x263a)'
> >
> > I get garbage, not a smiley face, i.e.:
> >
> > âº
> >
> > My environment is:
>
> ...
>
> > LC_ALL=en_US
>
> ...
>
> > LANG=EN_US.UTF8
>
> ...
>
> > LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
>
> Did you set LC_ALL? It is not set by default (at least not on my
> system). What is the output of locale (and why is your kmail sending
> ISO-8852-1 mails?)
>
> Regards,
> Andrei

'env' gives:

kloro@debian:~$ env
...
LC_ALL=en_US
...
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
...
LANGUAGE=en_US
...

does this not give what LC_ALL is set to?

'locale' gives:

kloro@debian:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
LC_TIME="en_US"
LC_COLLATE="en_US"
LC_MONETARY="en_US"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
LC_PAPER="en_US"
LC_NAME="en_US"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
LC_ALL=en_US


what are 'ISO-8852-1 mails'?

i appreciate your .

tom arnall

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 12:42:23PM -0700, tom arnall wrote:

> > Did you set LC_ALL? It is not set by default (at least not on my
> > system). What is the output of locale (and why is your kmail sending
> > ISO-8852-1 mails?)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andrei
>
> 'env' gives:
>
> kloro@debian:~$ env
> ...
> LC_ALL=en_US
> ...
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> ...
> LANGUAGE=en_US
> ...
>
> does this not give what LC_ALL is set to?
>
> 'locale' gives:
>
> kloro@debian:~$ locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=en_US
> LC_CTYPE="en_US"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> LC_TIME="en_US"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
> LC_PAPER="en_US"
> LC_NAME="en_US"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
> LC_ALL=en_US

I'm not an expert, but I think it's not very wise to mix locales. Set
everything to en_US.UTF-8 try again.

> what are 'ISO-8852-1 mails'?



Your kmail was not set to send UTF-8 mails (did you change this?), but
used the encoding ISO-8859-1 for the previous mail, that's why the
smiley face you meant to send came up ... a bit different It's
probably not related to your problem.

Regards,
Andrei
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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