in reply to Unicode in Perl
You have to trust Perl here: if you get an "illegal Unicode characters" your data probably isn't Unicode. My guess would be that it's just ISO 8859-2 (see The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup for more details).
There are probably modules to help you convert this, although I don't know them, but a naive way would be to use tr/// to do the substitution.
Something like this would work:
perl -e' $s="à tarif très réduit"; $s=~ tr/\xE0\xE8\xE9/aee/; print $s, "\n";'Note that I used latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) characters because that's what my editor likes, but you can use the ISO-8859-2 table to define your own substitution.
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