"Siladi, Aaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Ok so that should work given the string has utf8 flag set.
What's the utf8 flag got to do with it? Nick's program works for me without the utf8 flag set: perl -w use Encode; my $s = "\x99 4"; use Devel::Peek; Dump $s; my $n = encode('ascii',$s,Encode::FB_HTMLCREF); print "$n\n"; __END__ SV = PV(0x117c08) at 0x122968 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (PADBUSY,PADMY,POK,pPOK) <==== look no UTF8 PV = 0x117480 "\231 4"\0 CUR = 3 LEN = 4 ™ 4 Mike Guy