[TxMt] tm_dialog: *.plist | pl -> utf8 problem

[Hans-Joerg Bibiko]

I believe I found a solution by myself.

Instead of using 'pl' you can do same with the command 'defaults read  
PLIST'.
The only thing is that the encoding of non-ASCII characters is  
different from 'defaults read PLIST key'. I don't know why????
But anyway it should work.


On 17 Nov 2006, at 10:08, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> sorry if my question is a bit off topic but I couldn't find any  
> information.
>
> I'm just writing a tiny perl script which converts non-ASCII  
> characters coming from 'defaults read ...' to utf-8 because I want  
> to simplify the interaction between BASH and tm_dialog. This works  
> perfectly even with utf-16 surrogates.
>
> But then I was a bit naïve! I thought that 'pl' outputs non-ASCII  
> characters in the same way, but it didn't.
>
> E.g. an German umlaut 'ö' stored in a xml plist format is outputted  
> as '\U221a\U2202'!!
>
> Has someone an idea what kind of 'format' it is? I found no  
> documentation.
>
> Or could it mean that 'pl' do not support utf-8 string at all?
>
>
> Thanks for any hint
>
> Hans
>
>
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