How can I display Extended ASCII Codes characters in Perl?

Question

How to display 192 character symbol ( └ ) in perl ?

Answer 1

What you want is to be able to print unicode, and the answer is in perldoc perluniintro.

You can use \x{nnnn} where n is the hex identifier, or you can do \N{...} with the name:

perl -E 'say "\x{2514}"; use charnames; say "\N{BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP AND RIGHT}"'

Answer 2

To use exactly these codes your terminal must support Code Page 437, which contains frames. Alternatively you can use derived CP850 with less boxing characters. Such boxing characters also exist as Unicode Block Elements. The char which you want in perl is noted as \N{U+2514}. More details in perlunicode

Answer 3

That looks like the Code page 437 encoding. Perl is probably just outputting bytes that you give it. And your terminal is probably expecting UTF8.

So you need to decode it to Unicode, then re-encode it in UTF-8.

EDIT: Correct encoding.

Answer 4

As usual, Jon Skeet nails it: the 192 code is in the "extended ASCII" range. I suggest you follow @Douglas Leeder's advice, but I'm not sure which encoding www.LookupTables.com is giving you; ISO-8859-1 thinks 192 maps to "À", and Mac OS Roman thinks its "¿".