Hi, i tried your bytes code with this data:

use Encode;
$clob = "this is string with [micro sign here] in it";

$convertedstr = decode("utf8",$clob);

print $clob;
print $convertedstr;
bytes($clob) ;
bytes($convertedstr) ;

sub bytes {
  my ($s) = @_ ;
  my $w = utf8::is_utf8($s) ? "utf8" : "byte" ;
  use bytes ;
  print join(":", map(sprintf("%02X", $_), unpack('C*', $s))), " -- $w
+\n" ;
} ;

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The output of which was:

74:68:69:73:20:69:73:20:73:74:72:69:6E:67:20:77:69:74:68:20:C2:B5:20:69:6E:20:69:74 -- byte

74:68:69:73:20:69:73:20:73:74:72:69:6E:67:20:77:69:74:68:20:C2:B5:20:69:6E:20:69:74 -- utf8

so, as you can see, it all matches up. Its interesting that i tried your code on my Mac at home so i will have to try it at work. I printed the text before / after conversion, and it prints ok (with micro symbol) before, but after using decode, displays ? on my Mac

What does this mean then? Like i said, i will try your code at work, but currently the text displays ? before and after conversion. I use 'more' on linux at work and Notepad++ at work on Windows, both display ?

Thanks

Joe

Eschew obfuscation, espouse eludication!

In reply to Re^2: Character encoding of microns by joec_
in thread Character encoding of microns by joec_

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