Dear monks -

I am an experienced Perl programmer, but will be working with Latin-1 (French) data files soon for the first time, therefore gathering some much needed wisdom.

So I already have a script, which does the following:

  • 1) Takes a list of regular expressions (REs) from a config file, and

  • 2) Runs each RE against the content of a data file.

    • So far, the data files in Point 2 have been ASCII/English Language files, and I have never worked with non-English files before. My question is below:
    1) Is it right to think that I need to make no changes to my parser? That Perl will process Latin1/French data like any other data?
    2) OR - I need to do something special to 'enable' my parser to be able to run French REs against French data files?

    I would appreciate your advice.

    In reply to Parsing a Latin-1 Charset Data File by sumeetgrover

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