Re^2: accented characters are garbled

Yes, it was the terminal setting. Changing vt100 to xterm shows characters fine. Now, how do I replace accented characters with ascii? E.g. ó to o. I tried the following, but it did not work:

$city = "Sprîngfíčld";
use utf8;
utf8::upgrade($city);
utf8::encode($city);
print $city;
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Re^3: accented characters are garbled by Anonymous Monk on Feb 18, 2013 at 08:40 UTC
Don't use utf8, use encode/decode, read perlunitut: Unicode in Perl#I/O flow (the actual 5 minute tutorial)	[reply]
Re^3: accented characters are garbled by Anonymous Monk on Feb 18, 2013 at 11:02 UTC
So if you got the display working, why do you now want to strip the diacritics? Anyway, Text::Unidecode. And while I'm at it, here's the boilerplate code for getting Perl reasonably UTF-8: `use utf8; # upgrades your strings my $city = "Sprîngfíčld"; binmode(STDOUT, ":encoding(utf-8)"); print $city, "\n"; # use decode_utf8() when reading from e.g. a file # alternatively, see the binmode() call above use Encode 'decode_utf8'; my $input_raw = <STDIN>; my $input = decode_utf8($input_raw); print $input, "\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]