[wplug] perl system function not displaying unicode text.

[Matthew T. Engel]

I think the problem is that I am trying to use the system function to echo
text to the terminal.  Something like:

 

#!/usr/bin/perl

while(<>)

{

        chomp;

        system("echo $_");

}

 

If I run the script via 

 

$ cat ascii_text_file | ./above_script.pl    Everything works fine where it
essentially cats the input file.  However, if I do a $ cat unicode_text_file
| ./above_script.pl. I get blank lines where the echo'd data should be.

 

I think the second file is Unicode because doing a $od -c Unicode_text file,
shows /0 in front of all the characters, and if I vi the same file it shows
^@ before every character.

 

I would like to be able to use Unicode and ascii text files
interchangeabley. please advice. Thank you very much in advance.

 

Matt

 

 


Matthew T. Engel

Systems Administrator

Allegheny College, Department of Computer Science

Meadville, PA 16335

mengel at allegheny.edu

mtengel at andrew.cmu.edu

(814) 332-2906

 

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