[Debian-hebrew-common] Re: simple pango hebrew program problem. trivial modification of Grobgeld tutorial

[Mitchell Laks]

On Saturday 05 November 2005 10:24 pm, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to play with writing a simple gtk2-perl hebrew program. I
> I took dov grobgelds simple tutorial example program and I modified it
> trivially.
>
> Instead of writing hebrew utf8 text directly into the file, I took a hebrew
> text file and read in some text using the idiom
> open(IN,"out");

sorry: I did not understand perl unicode IO.
I modified my code to 

open(IN, ">:utf8","out)
and all was wonderful!

thank you all for a wonderful set of programs and tutorials!
Mitchell