What the heck is "7 bit even parity"? What is the real problem you are having? Are you getting bytes with the high bit set when you are expecting only ASCII? Where is data coming from? Perl deals with strings containing 8-bit bytes. It does not do any conversion (unless you are doing Unicode).

My guess is that this is an encoding problem. 0x84 is DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK in CP1252. CP1252 is a common character set with Windows adds smart quotes and other stuff to Latin-1. My suspicion is that the data you are decoding is a string containing a smart quote. If you want 7-bit ASCII, then you will need to strip or convert the 8-bit bytes.

In reply to Re: convert 7 bit even parity to 7 bit ascii by iburrell
in thread convert 7 bit even parity to 7 bit ascii by bear0053

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