On Dec 26, 2007 2:59 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [ Please only quote what's necessary to give context. ]
> [ Please don't top-post. ]
>
> Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> > Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> >> I believe the OP will need to identify all the characters he would like
> >> to see converted, and code the conversion rules himself using the tr///
> >> or s/// operator.
> >
> > Yes I think that it might not be any standard transforming algorithm for
> > doing this, and the program that do that, do their own transform.
> > So finally I've decided to try finding all the possible chars with
> > tildes, acute or grave accents, umlauts, etc, and replace using tr//.
> >
> > I hope I won't have any issues, because the chars are UTF-8.
>
> Well, then you'll probably need to identify the utf8 octet sequences
> that correspond to the special characters you want to see transformed.
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Perl strings are in UTF-8*, but if you want to specify a character
without using it directly (so the Perl file can still be treated as
ASCII) you use the UNICODE representation instead:
my $a_with_macron = "\x{0101}"; #UTF-8 encoding is C4 81
So, knowing the UTF-8 sequences is fairly useless.
* Well, for sufficiently recent versions of Perl.
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