How do I eliminate TT's "Wide character in print" warning ?

Question

I have this warning every time I run my CGI-script (output is rendered by Template::Toolkit):

Wide character in print at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/mach/Template.pm line 163.

What's the right way to eliminate it?

I create the tt object using this config:

my %config = (
       ENCODING     => 'utf8',
       INCLUDE_PATH => $ENV{TEMPLATES_DIR},
       EVAL_PERL   => 1,
}
my $tt = Template->new(\%config); 

Answer 1

Put this before calling $tt->process() to have the output automatically encoded:

binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(utf8)";

Edit: As daxim mentioned, it's possible to utilize TT's encoding facilities:

$tt->process($infile, $vars, $outfile, { binmode => ':encoding(UTF-8)' })

The manpage states that this option sets the output file to binary mode. But if we supply '-' (dash) as a filename, STDOUT will be used instead. This happens because the '-' filename is special, and gives you STDIN when it's opened for reading, and STDOUT when it's opened for writing. This is a widely used convention.

Answer 2

$tt->process($infile, $vars, $outfile, { binmode => ':encoding(UTF-8)' })

This is documented in http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Template#process%28%24template%2C_%5C%25vars%2C_%24output%2C_%25options%29.