I have lots of name in a UTF8 text file.
When I try to lowercase or uppercase them, any accented characters remain in their original case.

The following translation works fine for nuking a string (lowercase): 
tr/AÁÀÂÅÄÃBCÇDEÉÈÊËFGHIÍÌÎÏJKLMNÑOÓÒÔÖÕPQRSTUÚÙÛÜVWXYŸZ/aáàâåäãbcçdeéè
+êëfghiíìîïjklmnñoóòôöõpqrstuúùûüvwxyÿz/;<br>

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but it doesn't allow me to make cool use of things like \u for capitalizing words in a substitution.

I'm running PERL v5.8.9 built for darwin-2level on Mac OS X Leopard (standard distro).

I've got use UTF8;

My setlocale refuses to work - error message of "Undefined subroutine &main::setlocale called"

my system locales are all variations on LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" which may be hindering my adventure (the names are French)

I'm sure I'm not the first person to experience this behaviour - but a lot of googling has led to nothing but others with success by adding "use utf8;" (which I already had).

Advice? Ideas?

I don't want to have to iterate over every character in the string manually. The tr above is not elegant, but it works.

Thanks for any assistance you can provide!

In reply to utf8 change case on accented characters by JimmyMTL

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