Unicode to entity

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

The symbol font alpha character value is 0xF061, I need to convert α using perl.
Perl5.6 working following regular expressions, but Perl5.8 does not work.

$lines=~s/\x{F061}/\&alpha\;/g;
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can anyone help me, How to convert Unicode character to entity, and Symbol and other font character to entity.
JD

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Re: Unicode to entity by Louis_Wu (Chaplain) on Jan 10, 2003 at 06:43 UTC
These modules should help you. If these don't scratch your itch, try searching CPAN for 'Unicode'. Unicode::CharName Converts between the character code and the Unicode character name, and gives you the class the character belongs to. Unicode::String Try the `$us->utf8( [$newval] )` function. To quote the description from the page: The UTF-8 encoding use 8-bit for the encoding of characters in the range 0x0 .. 0x7F, 16-bit for the encoding of characters in the range 0x80 .. 0x7FF, 24-bit for the encoding of characters in the range 0x800 .. 0xFFFF and 32-bit for characters in the range 0x01000 .. 0x10FFFF. Americans like this encoding, because plain US-ASCII characters are still US-ASCII. Another benefit is that the character '\0' only occurs as the encoding of 0x0, thus the normal NUL-terminated strings (popular in the C programming language) can still be used. Unicode::Map8 Quote the CPAN: The Unicode::Map8 class implement efficient mapping tables between 8-bit character sets and 16 bit character sets like Unicode. The tables are efficient both in terms of space allocated and translation speed. The 16-bit strings is assumed to use network byte order. BTW, I've never used these. I just searched CPAN.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Unicode to entity by Jaap (Curate) on Jan 10, 2003 at 11:33 UTC
Perhaps you need to enable utf8 with "use utf8;" in your perl program.	[reply]