Wide character in syswrite

Zbigniew Lukasiak zzbbyy at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 16:01:12 GMT 2007


That most probably means that you are outputting unicode into a
character stream.  You need to either declare the output stream as
UTF8 or encode the strings you are writing to it from UTF8 into bytes.
 More info you can find using perldoc perlunicode.

Cheers,
Zbyszek

On Dec 11, 2007 3:35 PM, Robert Rothenberg <robrwo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So I'm experimenting with Net::Dict and have a problem when I submit certain
> words with wide characters (e.g. Polish L-slash):
>
>  Wide character in syswrite at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Net/Cmd.pm line
> 232, <STDIN> line 2.
>
> Does anyone know of a workaround for this?
>
>
>



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