my warmest welcome to the monastery!!

> it is madness... Unicode handling is dificult.. ridiculous problem..

welcome to the post Babel Tower era!

I'm with you: it is difficult but is the reality to be difficult not the Perl way.

I suggest you a very informative reading: tchrist about Perl and Unicode: No magic bullet (SO)

You must be patient and laborious to get it right; it's a narrow path but with perl it's possible.

Many monks here are skilled at this kind of problems (not me) and you can learn a lot from them.

L*