What character set does perl use?

When you read strings in perl, shuffle them around and don't do much more, perl treats the strings as binary data.

Your Ω in UTF-8 is looks like this: 

echo -n "Ω"|hexdump -C
00000000  e2 84 a6

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(The Omega character in the paste isn't showing correctly in code examples, imagine it being there instead of the HTML escape sequence)

When you import that into a Latin1 database, it interprets that as a sequnce of Latin1 characters, which is "âè¦" in your case.

Now you said you converted that to utf-8. A Latin1 "\x{e2}" becomes c3 a2, or â as a character.

Now you have to reverse that process step by step. I wish you much patience, and a good read of Encode, perluniintro and perlunicode.

Or if you have the chance, restore your data from a backup, and dump it into an utf8 database in the first place.

In reply to Re: A Character Set Enquiry by moritz
in thread A Character Set Enquiry by Godsrock37

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