[tlug] unicode and Perl- how to pass command line unicode arguments

[David Riggs <dariggs@example.com>]

Does anyone know how to pass real unicode kanji to perl on the command 
line? (Not just bytes that appear as kanji but are passed on as bytes.)

I finally magaged to get perl to do unicode work by saying 1. use utf8; 
(to have unicode in the script), and 2. invoding with -CSio switch (to 
do I/O in unicode). With these I can finally manipulate kanji (i.e. use 
tr/// to tranlate from one to another kanji and s/// to do real 
character classes and such).

But perl still reads the command line arguments as bytes, and they get 
mangled in the script. I just want to pass it a kanji string. I am 
limping along by reading from <STDIN>, but that messes up my abiility to 
make a pipeline of perl scripts.

Thanks for any help,

David Riggs, Kyoto