Acme::FixIO - Workaround for Windows chcp 65001 UTF-8 output bug
use Acme::FixIO; print chr(300) x 3, chr(301), "UVW\n";
This is the underlying problem: The last octet is repeated when Perl outputs a UTF-8 encoded string in cmd.exe, chcp 65001
Two StackOverflow articles with basically the same problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23416075 and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25585248.
This is caused by a bug in Windows. When writing to a console set to code page 65001, WriteFile() returns the number of characters written instead of the number of bytes.
Workaround: Inject a binmode(STDOUT, ':unix:encoding(utf8):crlf') into the perl program.
Klaus Eichner <klaus03@gmail.com>
Copyright (C) 2014 by Klaus Eichner
All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the artistic license 2.0, see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license-2.0.php
To install Acme::FixIO, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Acme::FixIO
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Acme::FixIO
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.