UTF8 support in readme

README.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ A list of example files to start using the Linux Command Line interface (CLI). O
 ## Content
 
 
-### phage
+### 📁phage
 
 #### A set of files to test parsing of bioinformatics format, mostly related to PhiX phage.
 
@@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ A list of example files to start using the Linux Command Line interface (CLI). O
  - assembly_status.txt
  - vir_assembly_report.txt
 
-### archives
+### 📁archives
 
 #### Archives to test decompression tools
 
  - archive.tar.gz
  - archive.zip
 
-### misc
+### 📁misc
 
 #### This is an extra subdirectory, it contains its own README file for details
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ A list of example files to start using the Linux Command Line interface (CLI). O
  - test
  - ecoli
 
-### files
+### 📁files
 
 #### Common file formats, both binary (e.g. PNG image) and text files (e.g. CSV). A PDF document is included to see how `less` can also handle them.
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ A list of example files to start using the Linux Command Line interface (CLI). O
  - cars.csv
  - introduction.txt
 
-### scripts
+### 📁scripts
  - N50.pl
  - linkweb.sh
 

_readme_maker/make_readme

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env perl
+use utf8;
 
 # Generates "../README.md" based on history.txt and subdir contents
 # Each subdir can optionally have a ".content" file to describe the use of the files
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ opendir my $dir_content, "$rep_directory";
 
 while (my $subdir = readdir $dir_content) {
 	next if (! -d "$rep_directory/$subdir" or $subdir=~/^[_\.]/);
-	$content .= "\n### $subdir\n";
+	$content .= "\n### 📁$subdir\n";
 	opendir my $d, "$rep_directory/$subdir";
 		if (-e "$rep_directory/$subdir/.content") {
 		    my $dir_description = read_file("$rep_directory/$subdir/.content");
@@ -42,5 +43,6 @@ while (my $subdir = readdir $dir_content) {
 $template=~s/{content}/$content/;
 
 open my $output, '>', "$rep_directory/README.md";
+binmode $output, ":utf8";
 say {$output} $template;