Hi,

I hope you can help me with a dilemma that I have encountered.

I am rendering data in an HTML page. The data is coming from my database (mysql). The database gets updated on a nightly
basis from an external source.

When rendering the title of a book, a few, not many, show a '?'. When I check the database it does not show the '?'.
I copied and pasted the title into VI. VI showed <200b>.

So I inserted a regex substitution as I looped through the list of books. It did not remove it.

This is what I see in HTML, Sustainable B?usiness?
This is what I see in the database, Sustainable Business

I am using Class::DBIx. In the connection package I include 'use utf8;'. In the HTML page, I use <meta charset="UTF-8">.
Yet, it still shows the '?'. I have also tried several substitution Perl regexes. Here are a few:

$booktitle =~ s/\u200b//g;
$booktitle =~ s/\x200b//g;
$booktitle =~ s/\<200b\>//g:

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Has anyone encountered this issue with a hidden unicode character? If yes, how did you remove the unicode character?

Thanks

In reply to Remove u200b unicode From String by phildeman

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