[sf-perl] Printing TM trademark symbol in perl

Richard Reina gatorreina at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 09:50:19 PST 2012


Thanks for the replies.  I think we're getting down to the crux of the
issue.  Ultimately, what has to happen is that I have to get the ™ into
text emails that our sent out by a script using mime::lite.  This is
proving to be daunting for me any help would be greatly appreciated.


2012/2/9 Dodger <el.dodgero at gmail.com>

> Moreover even if he changes the character set so it displays right in his
> viewer or editor, if that file is supposed to be used by someone else in a
> different environment that may expect a different charset it won't work.
>
> Perl can't help that. About the only way around it is using some format
> like XML in which the character set can be explicitly specified.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 09/02/2012, at 9:26 AM, Francisco Obispo <fobispo at isc.org> wrote:
>
> > exactly.
> > It's how you interpret it, as long as it is the right character.
> >
> > Francisco
> >
> >
> > On Feb 9, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Dodger wrote:
> >
> >> It seems to me the problem isn't printing any given character into a
> file but, rather, whatever is being used to display the file not rendering
> the right character.
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On 09/02/2012, at 8:35 AM, Francisco Obispo <fobispo at isc.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> you need to check your encoding to make sure that they match, and if
> they don't set them properly.
> >>>
> >>> LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
> >>>
> >>> or any other UNICODE-compatible encoding.
> >>>
> >>> It is generally a bad idea to rely on it because it if clients don't
> understand UNICODE they will see whatever character correspond to their
> table… and believe me, it's even worse when the client doesn't support
> multi-byte characters (in general).
> >>>
> >>> Francisco
> >>>
> >>> On Feb 9, 2012, at 8:27 AM, Richard Reina wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi Franisco, Your suggestion as well as print chr('8482') works.
>  However, it only works on my Ununtu Machines that are running Xwindows.
>  When I try it on a Centos machines in console mode it prints the circled
> "r" for registered trademark.  Would anyone know why this is and how to get
> the TM to print on a Centos machine?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 2012/2/8 Francisco Obispo <fobispo at isc.org>
> >>>> Actually in UTF-8 its: 8482
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> perl -e 'use Encode; map { printf(qq{char %d is:
> %s\n},$_,encode_utf8(chr($_)))} (8482)'
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2122/index.htm
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Feb 8, 2012, at 6:42 PM, Francisco Obispo wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I was hoping it would show up in the table.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Feb 8, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Richard Reina wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I don't know whether it is or not. I was hoping it was because I
> have to find a way to print it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2012/2/8 Jeff Bragg <jackofnotrades at gmail.com>
> >>>>>> Is that actually in the ASCII set?  I see (in the output from a for
> loop printing the characters for ordinals 10 - 255) the circled 'r' (ord
> 174) and the copyright symbol (ord 169), but no trademark symbol.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2012/2/8 Richard Reina <gatorreina at gmail.com>
> >>>>>> I am needing to print the TM symbol for a trademark into a regular
> ascii text file and having no luck doing so.  Does anyone know how?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks for any help.
> >>>>>>
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