One of my scripts converts a UTF-8 encoded file with Norwegian language text into iso-8859-1 (for RSS feeds that are used by websites which don't yet use Unicode). Using Text::Iconv, it works fine with lower-case characters, but not with uppercase ones. A single upper case character in the line will cause a problem.

My relevant lines of code are:

if ($langcode eq "no") {$converter = Text::Iconv->new("utf-8", "iso-8859-1");}

and

$Header = $converter->convert("$Header");

It's a shared server and I don't control which Perl modules are available. The web host is 1&1 Internet.

Any ideas? Thanks very much.

Eric Lee

In reply to iconv Norwegian upper case - not working? by ericlee

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