Re: How to Fix Character Encoding Damaged Text Using Perl?

It's gibberish, not Chinese.

Then post the BYTES not unicode codepoints

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Re^2: How to Fix Character Encoding Damaged Text Using Perl? by Jim (Curate) on Jun 15, 2013 at 02:51 UTC
I posted the Unicode code points and character names to help illustrate how the character encoding damage occurred; that is, to demonstrate the pattern. My problem is straightforward: Using Perl, restore the damaged text '敒›剕䕇呎' to the original text 'Re: URGENT'.	[reply]
Re^2: How to Fix Character Encoding Damaged Text Using Perl? by Anonymous Monk on Jun 15, 2013 at 02:32 UTC
Whoops :) `my $bytes = encode( 'UTF-8', $perlunicodestring ); $bytes =~ s{\x52\x65\x3A\x20\x55\x52\x47\x45\x4E\x54}{Re: URGENT}g` [download]	[reply] [d/l]