Hi,

I am making a program that has to do some substitutions on Japanese two-byte chars. Basically, I need to substitute Japanese EUC spaces for ASCII spaces, and a few Japanese words for their English equiv.

Actually doing something like

s!JPCHARS!ascii chars!;

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Works fine, but I don't want to put the Japanese chars in my script because some of the other people who will be working on it have dumb text-editors that can't open and save it correctly.

So, for example, if the Japnese space is 0x80 or something like that, I want to make my code something like
s!0x80! !;

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I can't figure out how to find the hex code for a Japanese char though. I am trying to use hex or ord or pack or unpack, but I cant seem to get it to work. (probably because I don't even know which one I should be using)

For example, These are some little snippets I have found around different places I searched for an answer: 
my $str1 = qq(あ);
my $str2 = qq(え);

print oct($str1); # gives me 0
print oct($str2); # gives me 0
print pack "CC", $str1; #gives me nothing
print pack "CC", $str2; #gives me nothing
print unpack "H2", $str1; #gives me e3
print unpack "H2", $str2; #gives me e3
printf("0x%02x\n", $str1); #gives me 0x00
printf("0x%02x\n", $str2); #gives me 0x00

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The problem is that different Japanese chars are giving me the same value in the output, so I am obviously not using these correctly, but I can't find anything that helps me with regard to double bytes.

I realize I am way offtrack, so if anyone can point me in the right direction I would be most grateful!

Thank you!

In reply to two byte chars in code by Anonymous Monk

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