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Can you define manually? I've fixed corrupted files in the past using carefully crafted regular expressions, but that is usually not the right choice. Better would be using Encode to do transformations once you know how your input stream is formatted. Encode::Guess might be helpful there, though it has limited utility because it's such a messy problem. As some background, you should read through perluniintro if you haven't already.

TL;DR- What you are proposing is possible, but sounds a lot like nested band-aids.

#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

In reply to Re^3: DBD::Oracle - Character Encoding Conversion by kennethk
in thread DBD::Oracle - Character Encoding Conversion by Zygomax

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