From: "Chas. Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> 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.
snip
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 $a_with_macron = "\x{0101}"; #UTF-8 encoding is C4 81
So, knowing the UTF-8 sequences is fairly useless.
Ok, and if I want to use tr// to replace a set of UTF-8 chars, how can I do
it?
Can I simply use
tr/astâîASTÂÎ/astaiASTAI/;
I am not sure I can because I've tried this, and something's not ok so I'll
need to check tomorrow.
I have also seen that length($string) returns the number of bytes of
$string, and not the number of chars (if the string contains UTF-8 chars).
How can I get the array of UTF-8 chars and the length of the string in
chars?
I haven't used
use bytes;
and neither
use utf-8;
I've tried them both, but... no change.
Thanks.
Octavian
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