Having has such success in the past I am returning to the Monastary for more help from the Perl Monks! Please bear in mind that I am a relative beginner here ... but here is my problem:
We have to do a fair bit of post processing of HTML and javascript files and all has worked fine until we started handling Japanese files - now the text is getting corrupted because perl is handling the text byte by byte. Is there a (relatively) easy way to tell perl that the text is multibyte and therefore look character by character and not byte by byte? So that something like: s/\\([^\\])/$1/g; doesn't change a Japanese/English mixed sequence like: \x94\x5C  \x83\x41 to \x94\x20\x83\x41?? I need it to know that the \x5C is the second byte in a multibyte character and not an escaped space.

Thank you for any help you can offer.

In reply to regex and multibyte strings by Kalimeister

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.