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degoor
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Dec 8, 2012, 11:58 PM

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Command Line Encoding Setting	Can't Post

Hello!

I have just started to learn Perl and I have an issue with the encoding of the command prompt.

My system: Windows XP Professional SP3,
Perl version: Strawberry Perl v5.14.2 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

I need to print in the command prompt some Cyrillic messages using print .

For example

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#!/perl 
print "Аз съм българин.\n";

If I save that as bg.pl and write in the command prompt

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perl bg.pl

I get some ugly characters.

When I write in the console

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chcp

I get

Code

Active code page: 866

I use EditPlus editor that can save text files as ANSI, Unicode, Unicode big endian, UTF-8, UTF-8+BOM files.

Could you kindly help me on the matter?

degoor
New User

Dec 9, 2012, 10:50 AM

Post #2 of 2 (738 views)

Re: [degoor] Command Line Encoding Setting [In reply to]	Can't Post

OK, here is how I solved the matter:

I saved bg.pl in all possible formats in the text editor: ANSI, Unicode, Unicode big endian, UTF-8, UTF-8+BOM.

When I saved the file as 'Unicode' and I tried

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type bg.pl

the Cyrillic letters appeared correctly.

Since chcp command showed that the code page used by the DOS prompt is 'cp866', I added after #!/perl line the following:

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use encoding 'cp866';

That solved the problem.

Thanks for your reading!

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