[Israel.pm] Perl-TK frame - showing Gibberish instead of Hebrew / Arabic characters from UTF-8 Input file.

[Omer Zak]

The gibberish looks as if the string from the text file was not decoded
(converted into an Unicode string).
I am not fluent in the Perl way of dealing with Unicode strings, so I
apologize for being unable to offer more specific advice.

On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 12:43 +0300, Oren Maurer wrote:
> Hi all
> I'm trying my first steps with Perl/Tk.
> 
> I want to read input text file and show the file contents on a frame.
> 
> The input text file has Hebrew and / or Arabic characters.
> It is saved as UTF-8.
> 
> The Latin characters are displayed Ok. But the Hebrew / Arabic
> characters are shown as Gibberish (I mean - those small 'x' and '[]'
> instead of real Hebrew).
> 
> For example:
> 003134388 24633 H $$aכל ספוריו ×(c)ל ×(c)מואל יוסף ×¢×'× ×•×Ÿ
> 
> Instead of:
> 003134388 24633 H $$aכל ספוריו של שמואל יוסף עגנון
> 
> 
> What can I do??

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