in reply to Re^4: Converting a passage of Spanish into hyphens and spaces
in thread Converting a passage of Spanish into hyphens and spaces

If the encoding is utf-8 rather than iso8859-1 then you can use the XPosixAlpha class like this:

$ echo habíamos reservado habitaciones. | perl -CIO -pe 's/\p{XPosixAl +pha}/-/g;' -------- --------- ------------.

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Re^6: Converting a passage of Spanish into hyphens and spaces
by UKhombre (Initiate) on Sep 13, 2015 at 19:28 UTC
    Cheers I will look into that.