Wide character in syswrite

Matt Lawrence matt.lawrence at virgin.net
Tue Dec 11 18:15:34 GMT 2007


Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 17:35 +0000, Matt Lawrence wrote:
>   
>> so I would guess the right thing to
>> do is to Encode::decode('UTF-8', ...) before passing into the module.
>>     
>
> No.  You should fix the module and send the author a patch.  It might
> take 5 extra minutes, but you'll fix the problem *for every person in
> the world* :)
>
>   
OP asked for a workaround ;-)

I did have a quick look at the module to see if it would be easy to
patch, but all the tests failed on my system so I thought better of it.
YMMV :-)

Matt



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