Nigel Peck wrote:
Dr.Ruud wrote:
Nigel Peck schreef:
I have a web application that gathers various data. When users enter
pound signs (english money not #) a number of strange characters get
stored in the database:
Here's a copy and paste:
£6.50 per hour
That is UTF8 encoded text. You can use
Encode::decode("utf8", $octets)
to convert it to Perl's internal string format.
You could equally convert it from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1
(see the Encode documentation), because the pound sign
is codepoint 163 in that character set.
Thanks for this. How can I find out a string's encoding?
Ask the person/program that provided you with that string what encoding
they are using.
John
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