[sf-perl] Printing TM trademark symbol in perl

[Richard Reina]

I tried but when I do:

  Data => encode("utf8", $body),

I get:

Undefined subroutine &main::encode called at test_MIME_mail.pl line 8.

2012/2/9 Francisco Obispo <fobispo at isc.org>

> Ah!,
> well, just make sure you set your quoted-printable and UTF-8, you might
> want to read:
>
>
> http://www.databasesandlife.com/using-utf-8-and-unicode-data-with-perl-mimelite/
>
> regards,
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Richard Reina wrote:
>
> > 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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