Converting between UTF8 and local codepage without specifying local codepage

2005-11-07 Thread David Schlegel
Is there someway to convert from whatever the local codepage is to utf8 and back again ? The Encode::encode and decode routines require passing a specific codepage to do the conversion but finding out what the local codepage is is very tricky across different platforms, particularly UNIX where

Re: Converting between UTF8 and local codepage without specifying local codepage

2005-11-08 Thread David Schlegel
to get it. If there was some way to do decode/encode without having to know the local codepage that would make me happy to. I just want to get encode/decode to work. David Graff [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/07/2005 08:20 PM To David Schlegel/Lexington/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc perl-unicode@perl.org