Hi,
I need a way to tell if a given string contains non-ascii characters (specifically, Japanese double-byte characters). I thought I might be able to split the string and then call ord on each character, and tell from the results of ord whether it's ascii or not, like this: 
@chars = split '', $string;
for my $char (@chars)
{
   my $ord = ord $char;
   print "$char   $ord\n";
}

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But so far either the split seems to be giving me the wrong number of characters, or ord is trying to force them into an incorrect ascii value.
Anyone have a good way to do this? The next thing I'm going to do is peek inside the Jcode module to see if it has a good trick I can use -- I'll post whatever I come up with.

In reply to detecting non-ascii chars in a string by blahblahblah

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