Why does Perl lose foreign characters on Windows input - can this be fixed (if so, how) or is Perl an outdated dinosaur that just can't handle this?
- by Alex R
Note below how ã changes to a
This is causing me a huge problem as foreign characters show up in URLs,
e.g. http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cão
The OS is Windows 7, 64-bit.
The Perl is:
This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 2 (v5.12.2) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
(with 8 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
Copyright 1987-2010, Larry Wall
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Additional update:
To get around my particular problem, I tried using File::Find instead of piped input. The issue actually gets worse: