Acme-FixIO

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META.yml  view on Meta::CPAN

---
abstract: 'Workaround for Windows chcp 65001 UTF-8 output bug '
author:
  - 'Klaus Eichner <klaus03@gmail.com>'
build_requires:
  Test::More: '0'
configure_requires:
  ExtUtils::MakeMaker: '0'
dynamic_config: 0
generated_by: 'Dist::Zilla version 5.025, CPAN::Meta::Converter version 2.142060'
license: perl
meta-spec:

Makefile.PL  view on Meta::CPAN

use strict;
use warnings;



use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;



my %WriteMakefileArgs = (
  "ABSTRACT" => "Workaround for Windows chcp 65001 UTF-8 output bug ",
  "AUTHOR" => "Klaus Eichner <klaus03\@gmail.com>",
  "CONFIGURE_REQUIRES" => {
    "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" => 0
  },
  "DISTNAME" => "Acme-FixIO",
  "EXE_FILES" => [],
  "LICENSE" => "perl",
  "NAME" => "Acme::FixIO",
  "PREREQ_PM" => {
    "Exporter" => 0,

README  view on Meta::CPAN

This archive contains the distribution Acme-FixIO,
version 0.02:

  Workaround for Windows chcp 65001 UTF-8 output bug 

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Klaus Eichner.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.


This README file was generated by Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Readme v5.025.

lib/Acme/FixIO.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

binmode(STDOUT, ':unix:encoding(utf8):crlf') or die "Can't binmode STDOUT because $!";
binmode(STDERR, ':unix:encoding(utf8):crlf') or die "Can't binmode STDERR because $!";

1;

__END__

=head1 NAME

Acme::FixIO - Workaround for Windows chcp 65001 UTF-8 output bug

=head1 SYNOPSIS

    use Acme::FixIO;

    print chr(300) x 3, chr(301), "UVW\n";

=head1 DESCRIPTION

This is the underlying problem:
The last octet is repeated when Perl outputs a UTF-8 encoded string in
cmd.exe, chcp 65001

Two StackOverflow articles with basically the same problem:
L<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23416075> and
L<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25585248>.

This is caused by a bug in Windows. When writing to a console set to code
page 65001, WriteFile() returns the number of characters written instead
of the number of bytes.