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in thread Using encoding

Ok, I think that makes sense. So ord is not what I'm after

What's the best way to find 'funny' characters in a text file, and to translate them into meaningful characters in a text/unicode file?

I'm assuming that it's me that's making this difficult and it's probably quite straight forward

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Re^4: Using encoding
by nikosv (Deacon) on Jan 14, 2013 at 12:56 UTC
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      I tried the UTF16LE and it was producing the error "UTF-16LE:Partial character", so it wouldn't work

      Taking all encoding off the input file (presumably letting it read as ASCII) allowed me to substitute

      $col =~ s/\x{B6}\x{9C}/\x{A3}/g;

      as long as my output file was encoded with ISO-8859-1

      That encoding (ISO-8859-1) works for the input file as well. So I guess I was leading people astray by suggesting using utf8.

      I now have £ signs appearing in the finished file. However, it also contains little squares which seem to be from return markers the users have put in.

      I would have thought that with this file able to be input without encoding that it would be a case of s/\r\n/\n/, but this doesn't seem to work

      Alternatively, is there a way to say "Perl, if you don't recognise the character, blitz it!"?

      I've read quite a few web pages about the whole thing, but I don't seem to be quite getting it.

      Any further help much appreciated

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