I am receiving data for entry into a mysql database. The information
comes to me in gzipped files and I'm using Compress::Zlib to uncompress
the file in perl. I'm running perl 5.8.5.
The information in the file is encoded in latin1. It is mostly ASCII
7-bit with HTML entities and some characters with ordinal values > 127.
I'm using DBI to access the database and would like to enter the data
into the mysql database in UTF-8 format. Everything I have read has
indicated that if I can read the file using PerlIO, perl will
automatically convert the data to UTF-8, but since the files are
compressed and I'm uncompressing them in perl, I can't figure out how to
get perl to translate the data into UTF-8. I would like for perl to
translate the HTML entities to UTF-8 encoding as well, if that is possible.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Carl.
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