Mark, I think 5.8 has a encode module with a normalize function. CPAN probably has something similar. The perl docs for those modules is probably a good place to start to understand unicode normalization. unicode.org is the definitive source but could be pretty pedantic if this is your first exposure.
Barry Caplan www.i18n.com At 05:38 PM 11/20/2002 +0000, Mark Proctor wrote: >I have checked with the sysadmins at cisco and they said "no way" :( >So I have to get this working. Someone has said that I need to >"normalise" the params from cgi - but I have no idea what that means. > >Mark