I have (probably) a stupid question. I'm trying to convert a set of Japanese "zenkaku" numbers to their ascii equiavalents. I know I can use Jcode->tr(), but I'm using Perl 5.8.3, and something tells me I should be able to do this natively in this version of Perl.
Actually, I want to do slightly more than that. The end goal is to convert the numbers into ascii, but just so that I don't have to go through the hassle, I'd like to first change the string into utf8 (because I wouldn't know what encoding it's going to be until run time), and then do the substitution: use Encode; use Encode::Guess; my $str = "...."; # euc, sjis, jis or utf8? my $enc = guess_encoding($str, qw(euc-jp shiftjis 7bit-jis utf8)); # snip error handling my $utf8 = decode($enc->name, $str); # now substitute zenkaku numbers to ascii $utf8 =~ s/.../.../ # ??? So far all of my attempts are failing. Can somebody please point me to the correct way to do this in recent Perls? TIA --d