How can I properly use environment variables encoded as Windows-1251 in Perl?
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I have an environment variable set in Windows as TEST=abc£
which uses Windows-1252
code page. Now, when I run a Perl program test.pl
this environment value comes properly.
When I call another Perl code - test2.pl
from test1.pl
either by system(..)
or Win32::Process
, the environment comes garbled.
Can someone provide information why this could be and way to resolve it?
The version of perl
I am using is 5.8.
If my understanding is right, perl
internally uses utf-8
, so the initial process - test1.pl
received it right from Windows-1252
→ utf-8
. When we call another process, should we convert back to Windows-1252
code page?
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