This program reads in a sentence. It then takes out all the a^ o^ etc out, cos some people may use them to do â or ô etc cos they don't know how. It then changes it to the \xe2 equiv so that a spell checker can check it, and display the correct result. I've started byt changing â, cos i forgot to put "" instead of ''. Use the â as example. 
use strict ;


use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
  
use HTML::Template;
use Data::Dumper;

use Unicode::String;


my $q = new CGI;




sub accentmatch()
{
    my $brawddeg = shift;
    $brawddeg =~ s/([aeiouwy][\"\^\`\/])/utf($1)/ge;
    
    return $brawddeg;
    
}


sub utf()
{
    my $acen = shift;
    my $transacen;
    
    my %conv = ('a^'=>"\xe2",  'e^'=>'\x0EA',  'i^'=>'\x0EE',  'o^'=>"
+\x0f4",  'u^'=>'\0FB',  'w^'=>"\x175",   'y^'=>'\x177',
            'a"'=>'\x0E4',  'e"'=>'\x0EB',  'i"'=>'\x0EF',  'o"'=>'\x0
+F6',  'u"'=>'\0FC',  'w"'=>'\x1E85',  'y"'=>'\xff',
            'a/'=>'\x0E1',  'e/'=>'\x0E9',  'i/'=>'\x0ED',  'o/'=>'\x0
+F3',  'u/'=>'\0FA',  'w/'=>'\x1E83',  'y/'=>'\xfd',
            'a\''=>'\x0E0', 'e\''=>'\x0E8', 'i\''=>'\x0EC', 'o\''=>'\x
+0F2', 'u\''=>'\0F9', 'w\''=>'\x1E81', 'y\''=>'\x1EF3',
            'A^'=>'\x0C2',  'E^'=>'\x0CA',  'I^'=>'\x0CE',  'O^'=>'\x0
+D4',  'U^'=>'\0DB',  'W^'=>'\x174',   'Y^'=>'\x176',
            'A"'=>'\x0C4',  'E"'=>'\x0CB',  'I"'=>'\x0CF',  'O"'=>'\x0
+D6',  'U"'=>'\0DC',  'W"'=>'\x1E84',  'Y"'=>'\x178',
            'A/'=>'\x0C1',  'E/'=>'\x0C9',  'I/'=>'\x0CD',  'O/'=>'\x0
+D3',  'U/'=>'\0DA',  'W/'=>'\x1E82',  'Y/'=>'\xdd',
            'A\''=>'\x0C0', 'E\''=>'\x0C8', 'I\''=>'\x0CC', 'O\''=>'\x
+0D2', 'U\''=>'\0D9', 'W\''=>'\x1E80', 'Y\''=>'\x1EF2');
    
    die unless $conv{$acen};
    
    return( $conv{$acen} );
}

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But if I enter words like tân, i get t(square thing - the cannot diplay symbol symbol). Any ideas? Thanks for your help. P.s. I know I don't need most of the stuff at the top but ignore that.

In reply to Showing â,ô etc in HTML by COMSCBoy

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