unicode

[paul johnston]

With the first signs of life on this list a question
I use the utf-8 on Solaris 7 x86 which allows a limited unicode representation 
i.e. cyrillic and some IPA
I have perl scripts which convert files of various code-pages into utf.
What would make life easier would be to use pack as in 
pack("c",$asci_number)
but where the asci_number takes the full 65k range
Basically is there a pack template for two byte unicode characters?
Many Thanks

Paul Johnston
System Admin
Language Engineering
UMIST
Tel 0161 200 3111

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