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Re: High-bit ISO Lating character conversion problem.

by true (Pilgrim)
on Sep 06, 2003 at 17:42 UTC ( [id://289487]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to High-bit ISO Latin character conversion problem.

ok so the light is spreading. And my question needs refinement. I was hoping to make it a simple question for the readers out there:

Filemaker pro exports a tab-delimited with quotes file from my client's database. The columns use all sorts of foreign characters (accented e's, u's, leaning single and double quotes, cent signs, etc). I want to convert the leaning quotes to regular quotes, (after i split the file correctly by columns and rows). My first post about the cent sign example does not indicate the slanting quotes problem.

My previous solution involved a flat text file with all the special characters. When i compared my text to a slanted single quote (backtick?) i got a regex error. I tried slashing it and q'ing it a couple of different ways to no avail. Still get the regex error.

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