On Tuesday 24 April 2007 02:07, Mumia W. wrote: > On 04/24/2007 03:06 AM, Jeff Pang wrote: > > 2007/4/24, Beau E. Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> How do I get a proper conversion from iso-8859-1 to perl's internal > >> utf8? [snipped] > I don't think it'll work in this case because \x99 doesn't seem to be > inside my list of iso-8859-1 characters. > > The document Mr. Cox is downloading is less than truthful about its > character set. Although it advertises itself as iso-8859-1, it's > actually cp1250. > > Mr. Cox, I got your program to decode the text properly by changing the > decoding line to this: > > my $name1 = decode( 'cp1250', $name ); > > Have a nice day. > > BTW, I got the list of valid cp1250 characters here: > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/unicode/1250.htm > > Read "perldoc Encode::Supported" to see the list of supported character > sets. Perfect! Thank you Mumie. (How rude of them to falsely encode their pages!) Anyway, I'm working fine now.
Aloha => Beau; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
