I have a bunch of files with filenames that are all filled with Unicode stuff. I've always been a bit confused by how Unicode and ISO-Latin co-exist in Perl and I've really never had any need for Unicode so I've not worried about it much. The *only* thing I want to do with these files is fix their names by eliminating the Unicode stuff. I expect that the more unicode competent Perl folk will be horrified, but this is the routine I use to un-Unicode the file names: 
#Remove all the unicode characters
sub sanitize
{   my $unicode = $_[0] ;
    my $ascii ;
    for my $char (split(//, $unicode)) 
    {   $ascii .= $char if ord($char) < 256  }
    return $ascii; 
}

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In reply to Re^2: Contacting the author of a module? by BernieC
in thread Contacting the author of a module? by BernieC

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