i've been digging around and can't find anything quickly useful ( i *should* have this finishing by lunch localtime ).

Foreign language characters... had some helpful ideas, but i *think* the strings in which i need to tr// has accented capitals, and i can't get tr// to work.

here's the beginning of the code: 

## $fixedName is fetched from DB and copied to new var
my $fixedName = "MATíAS LóPEZ";
$fixedName =~ tr/íÍ/II/;
print "FIXED: $fixedName \n";

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problem is ... tr// doesn't catch anything. i get: 

FIXED: MATíAS LóPEZ

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i've tried to 'downgrade' the characterset and gotten lots of "?" characters. I've tried Unicode::String and that didn't do anything. i tried  Encode.pm and gotten lots of binary-looking cahracters ...

any advice or pointers?

In reply to ISO-8859-1 characters to ASCII by geektron

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