Thank you both very much for your help. It's all working fine now.

For the record, those aren't the actual correct numbers as written -- Vietnamese has so many diacritical marks, often two to a vowel, that you have to download special fonts and keyboard layouts.

It's hard to program in Perl when the "{" comes out "À"
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($_='jjjuuusssttt annootthheer
     pppeeerrrlll haaaccckkeer')=~y/a-z//s;print;
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