Hello, I was wondering if someone could provide some advice on how to tweak a perl script to deal with double-byte (UTF_8 & S-JIS) characters from within perl. I've read a TPJ article by Jeff Friedl. I've also searched CPAN and found many different modules - IMAP*, UTF-*, and on and on and am a bit confused on the best way to proceed.
Up till now, our scripts have been largely doing DB queries and prints to load files. We've been able to get by setting a Locale variable in our unix environment - Perl did no manipulation on strings and our data was preserved on prints. A new script will need to do transliteration ( s///; tr///; etc.) and string manipulation. For example, removal of \012 & \015 octals, as well as leading and trailing space removal, etc. In short, is there a simple approach anyone can recommend? Note our manipulations will be (at least for now) pretty confied to a specific set so if a hash-char mapping is the simplest/best approach we could get by with that for awhile. OTOH, if a simple and bug-free module exists, we'd probably prefer that approach as it sounds like a simpler mod for our existing domestic scripts. Any advice appreciated. Thanks - John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
