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Mintu Raj
Mintu Raj

Reputation: 11

How can I print non-English characters to the terminal?

my $star = 'इस परीक्षण के लिए है';

I want to print this string as it is using encoding.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 434

Answers (1)

Borodin
Borodin

Reputation: 126762

You need the statement

use utf8;

at the top of your program to tell perl that the script is encoded in UTF-8. You can also write

use open qw/ :std :encoding(UTF-8) /;

to make UTF-8 the default output encoding

Your terminal must be expecting UTF-8 output. On Linux you should check the LC_TYPE environment variable

echo $LC_CTYPE

This should normally be UTF-8 but you can change it if not

On Windows this is done with code pages. For UTF-8 you need code page 65001. Use the chcp command to check and alter it

Now, provided your terminal is using a font that covers the characters you want to display, you should be able to just print $star to have the text appear on your terminal

Upvotes: 4

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