I have variables containing a unicode character C3 A9. The line looks like this: 

00000750  27 41 63 63 6f 72 64 c3  a9 6f 6e 27 2c 20 27 64  |'Accord..
+on', 'd|

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When I run this through Text::Unidecode, instead of getting accorde-with-acute-accent I get A(c).

I have:

use utf8;
use Text::Unidecode;

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and later (roughly): $var = unidecode($var)

Debugging shows that the variable is changed by the unidecode function: 

Before: Montréal Centre-ville
After: MontrA(c)al Centre-ville

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I would expect a lower case 'e' as I had before this program was ported from 5.6.1 to 5.8.8 (and from freebsd to linux)

Any idea what I can do to correct this? The output is filenames that generate URLs, and the customer wants to match what she had before so as not to change the URLs in Google.

Thanks,

Ed Greenberg

In reply to Unidecode fails printing french accents by edgreenberg

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