axelrose has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear monks,

I wanted to use Perl modules to cleanly convert between MacRoman and Latin1 texts.

After some reading in the new Perl & XML book I thought I could use Unicode::String. It includes all utf variants and latin1 but no macroman.

The next module checked was XML::Encoding. It contains a lot of mappings but also lacks a macroman encoding.

I could of course write my own translation table but rather utilize standard maps and modules, i.e. macroman->utf8->latin1 would be the perfect solution.

Has anybody already solved this task?

Thanks,
Axel

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Re: MacRoman <->Latin1
by Courage (Parson) on Jul 20, 2002 at 16:10 UTC
    I just looked at perl-5.8.0 source distribution and found ./ext/Encode/ucm/macRoman.ucm, which makes me think that:
    • it is supported in 5.8.0
    • Encode module from CPAN will help you with elder perls
    • at least that file will help you to write your own table (which is obviously not a best way)

    Courage, the Cowardly Dog.

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      All "Encode" versions need at least 5.7 ...
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        You're right. But still, there's right encoding file in there, which can help you.

        Another my guess is Unicode-Map-0.112 from CPAN. It contains .\Map\MS\MAC\Roman.map, which may be what you're searching for.

        Courage, the Cowardly Dog.

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