Re: Unexpected display of non-ASCII

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 06:18 -0800, Jon Mitchell wrote:

> Whilst trying to display international currency units I found the
> following unexpectedness. In the following code I would expect a label
> to appear with "£10.00 $10.00 €10.00 ¥10.00". Instead of the currency
> unit I get strange characters, as shown in the attached png.

perl has to be told to handle utf8 source code.  So if your source file
is encoded as utf8, use:

  use utf8;

-- 
Bye,
-Torsten