Coding

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<p>Folks often wander into <tt>#perl</tt>, asking about “Wide character …” messages. For unknown reasons, some people are reluctant to read the <a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/perldiag.html"><tt>perldiag</tt></a> documentation that explains this message, and, having been cajoled into reading the documentation, reluctant to follow the advice it outlines, instead insisting on a regex solution to perhaps strip the offending characters. An unrelated discussion at work educed two must reads regarding Unicode:</p> <ol> <li><a href="http://jmglov.blogspot.com/2008/04/thou-shalt-grok-unicode.html">Thou shalt grok Unicode!</a></li> <li><a href="http://ahinea.com/en/tech/perl-unicode-struggle.html">Unicode-processing issues in Perl and how to cope with it</a></li> </ol> <p><a href="http://sial.org/blog/2006/12/unicode_christmas.html">More Unicode</a>.</p> <!-- technorati tags start --><p style="text-align:right;font-size:10px;">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/characters" rel="tag">characters</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/utf8" rel="tag">utf8</a></p><!-- technorati tags end --> <br /> 2008-04-20T04:13:21-0700 277