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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
June 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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encoding

Although Perl 5.6.0 introduced Unicode support, it was not complete until Perl 5.8. With encoding.pm, you can write any Perl script with whatever encoding type you want. If you’re a show off and worship anime movies, and want to write your Perl program in Kanji, use encoding, and be our guest:

# Cute example, slightly modified from the encoding.pm doc
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
 
use encoding 'euc-jp'; # Note that we support only one encoding

my $book = 'Camel';
my $Rakuda = "\xF1\xD1\xF1\xCC"; # Camel in Kanji
$book =~ s/\bCamel\b/$Rakuda/;
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