Hello, I was doing some I18N of a bunch of existing CGI scripts and encountered a problem. I guess I'm making some very basic error, but I'm stuck with this for a day and I thought I may ask. I have my strings in UTF-8. I read most of them from file, do some processing and spit them out of the CGI-script.
Let say I do this: $x=~y/a-ya/A-YA/; Here, with "a" I mean cyrillic "a" (1'st letter of the cyrillic alphabet), with "ya" - ciryllic "ya" (last letter of the cyrillic alphabet). I don't want to post ciryllic chars here - I don't know how they will show, but you understand what I mean. This doesn't work properly. I suppose it should convert the characters to uppercase, but what happens is that some characters do not get converted to uppercase, while other get converted to wrong characters. Another thing is that when I say "substr($cyrillicString,5,1)", the character returned is always invalid (shows as a white question on a black diamond). All other cyrillic strings, that are not manipulated show properly. The problem happens when I try to get a character from a string, to split it, things like this. What am I doing wrong? If you reply RTFM, I'll understand and will not complain... :-) - Alex
