Question

I’m new to Perl.

I was getting errors in my print statement: “Wide character in print”

And adding this line of code made it work

#binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");

I read the doc, simply put, binmode encodes characters in a manner that the platform can understand.

Without it, the platform may be expecting the characters to mean something else because it is using a different encoding.

Or is my understanding of binmode off ?

Is there a way with perl to find out what encoding the platform is using ?

Answer 1

use open ':std', ':locale';

can help. Doesn’t work on all systems, though.