[squashed]

Hi all,

I'm trying to create files on a Windows XP machine that hold russian language content. The content is generated with perl scripts. The problem is that when I try to give the files meaningful russian names, the filenames come out garbled.

For example:

$u = "работать" ;

$f = magic($u) ; # the magic function is what I am looking for...

open O,">$f" ;

the kind of magic I am trying results in filenames like работать.html
I've tried using encode/decode functions, but I'm obviously not doing it right.


thanks for reading

[phranque]

did you "use Encode;"?

[drowzee]

phranque is right.

use Encode like this:
-----------------------------------
use utf8;
use Encode;

$u = "работать";

$f = encode("cp1251", $u);

open O, ">$f" or die "OMG!";

close O;
-----------------------------------

or just save your source .pl file as ANSI text, it will create file without any additional charset conversions.

[ukndoit]

I am having problems with it to.

I added this to the MySql database with phpMyAdmin:
Карту был заблокирован по следующей причине:

and it added it correctly, that is what I see in the database.
however when Perl gets it and prints it to the page, I see this:
????? ??? ???????????? ?? ????????? ???????:

for each cryllyc character, it replaces it with a ? and I even changed my page encoding to:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

that did not do it either.

I am lost as to why I can see it correctly in phpMyAdmin, but not in my Perl output pages.
If I use my language tag editor and change it with the form in my perl script, somehow it saves as encoded this way:
%26#1050;%26#1072;%26#1088;%26#1090;%26#1091; %26#1073;%26#1099;%26#1083; %26#1079;%26#1072;%26#1073;%26#1083;%26#1086;%26#1 082;%26#1080;%26#1088;%26#1086;%26#1074;%26#1072;% 26#1085; %26#1087;%26#1086; %26#1089;%26#1083;%26#1077;%26#1076;%26#1091;%26#1 102;%26#1097;%26#1077;%26#1081; %26#1087;%26#1088;%26#1080;%26#1095;%26#1080;%26#1 085;%26#1077;:
(I had to change the & to %26 or the broswer changed the encoding back to cryllyc)

Any ideas as to why Perl does not seem to like the characters in cryllyc?


BTW, here is how I try to display it on the page:
for debugging:
#perl script:
print "encoded: " . encode("cp1251", $_tr->{value});


Thank you,
Richard

[wirehopper]

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