in reply to ISO-8859-1 characters to ASCII

Seems to be a stranger problem than you think, as tr works with german umlauts and other iso-8859-1 characters without a problem:

tom@margo tom $ perl -e 'my $test="äöüßæ"; $test =~ tr/öäüßæ/oausä/; p +rint $test, "\n"' aousä

regards,
tomte


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