12-07-2012
Hello,
I found the problem. BOM: Byte Order mark
Normally under windows a UTF-8 file starts with a BOM (byte order mark, U+FEFF), as is standard for UTF-8 files on Windows systems. I concede that it is legal for them to do so, but it is utterly pointless since the byte order is determined by the formal specification of the UTF-8 representation itself. And it just happens that, unlike the rest of UTF-8, an initial BOM will screw up a Unix system. And Perl is supposed to be
Quote:
"an oasis of Unix culture in the desert of can't-get-there-from here" (Larry Wall, probably slightly misquoted).
Using a hex editor I removed the FEFF and it worked like a charm.
On Linux you should have no problem, since this aberration does not exist ina Unix system
Many thanks for trying to solve the mystery.
As an aid to all of us who suffer the tyranny of the WinOS system, here is a useful link:
HTML Code:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=599720.
This offers two solutions for the problem. Googling
Quote:
"perl bom" or "perl File::BOM"
comes up with more if needed.
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CDTOA(1) General Commands Manual CDTOA(1)
NAME
cdtoa - To convert the binary format of a dictionary back to
text format.
SYNOPSIS
cdtoa [-n] [-s] [-z] [-e] [-E] infilename
[-h cixingfile ] [ usagefreqfile ]
DEFAULT PATH
/usr/local/bin/cWnn4/cdtoa
DESCRIPTION
To convert the binary format of the dictionary to text
format, and output to standard output(stdout).
infilename is the name of the input binary format
dictionary.
The output may be piped into a file by using the ">"
command. For example,
cdtoa dict.dic > dict.u
"dict.u" here is the output text format dictionary, while the "dict.dic" is the input binary format dictionary.
usagefreqfile may indicate more than one user usage frequency files (for a particular user). These usage frequency information will be
reflected in the text format dictionary created.
OPTIONS
-s To order the entries in text dictionary according to Pinyin or Zhuyin.
-n To attach sequence numbers to the output.
-z To convert the binary format back to text format in Zhuyin.
(Note: default is Pinyin)
-e If the Hanzi inside the text dictionary contains characters such as space and tab, they will be compacted to special format.
(Default)
-E If the Hanzi inside the text dictionary contains characters such as space and tab, they will NOT be compacted to special format.
-h cixingfile
To specify the Cixing definition file.
NOTE
1. The parts in [ ] are options. They may be omitted.
2. The Pinyin and Zhuyin dictionary has the same format.
3. The default conversion result of the text dictionary is in Pinyin.
13 May 1992 CDTOA(1)