Re: newbie question

2002-06-14 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Antonio Fortin wrote: hi fellow mongers, i'm a linguist, just starting out with perl (and programming generally) and i'm learning the hard (but fun) way. i'm trying to use Soap::Lite to query Google APIs and am having trouble with the encoding. accented characters tend to mess

newbie question

2002-06-13 Thread Antonio Fortin
hi fellow mongers, i'm a linguist, just starting out with perl (and programming generally) and i'm learning the hard (but fun) way. i'm trying to use Soap::Lite to query Google APIs and am having trouble with the encoding. accented characters tend to mess things up somewhat,

Re: newbie question

2002-06-13 Thread Mike Jarvis
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 06:24:00PM +0100, Antonio Fortin wrote: i'm using windoze and AS Perl, so i don't think i can use locale. or can i? AS perl has locale support, I've used it before. I'm not sure it will help you though. -- mike It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's

RE: newbie question

2002-06-13 Thread Gaz
something odd happens: a misspelled unaccented word, (say) 'cliche', gets more hits than the correctly spelled version ('cliché', in this example). Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't you expect that to happen, as I'd expect the number of people who don't use accented characters for

newbie question

2002-06-13 Thread Antonio Fortin
hi fellow mongers, i'm a linguist, just starting out with perl (and programming generally) and i'm learning the hard (but fun) way. i'm trying to use Soap::Lite to query Google APIs and am having trouble with the encoding. accented characters tend to mess things up somewhat,