This encodigns drive me nuts: I create a new txt file inside the 'data/text/path' and if i save it with wordpad as normal .txt it wont display at all withing my embedded avascript inside index.pl
If i save it as utf8 i see funny chars.
I just dont get it i did the same with all the other text files, why not this be seen normally?
The origin of the txt source was form a webpage at google
Does this matter? 
my @files = <../data/text/*.txt>;
my @display_files = map /([^\/]+)\.txt/, @files;
Encode::from_to($_, "ISO-8859-7", "utf8") for @display_files;
my $passage = param('select') || "&#913;&#961;&#967;&#953;&#954;&#942;
+ &#931;&#949;&#955;&#943;&#948;&#945;!";
    
    Encode::from_to($passage, "utf8", "ISO-8859-7") if param();

    open(FILE, "<../data/text/$passage.txt") or die $!;
         local $/;
         $data = <FILE>;
    close(FILE);

    Encode::from_to($passage, "ISO-8859-7", "utf8");

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What can i do to save myself from all thsi encoding traboule back and forth? neither Encode::from_to wont help me any more :-(

In reply to Persistant Encodings Problems by Nik

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