Hi,

Got an issue here which has had me perplexed for a good 2 hours :/ 

if ($test_title !~ /^$country_name/) {
    #$title = qq|FOO: $title|;
    $title = qq|$country_name $title|;
} else {
  ... do some other stuff
}

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We are running out server in UTF8 btw.

For some reason, the above code is breaking the string - and it comes out like so:

REUNION Circuit Réunion en Liberté

..if I comment out this line:

    $title = qq|$country_name $title|;

..and uncomment this one:

        $title = qq|FOO: $title|;

..the import process adds it correctly:

FOO Circuit Réunion en Liberté

I'm really confused as to why this is happening. $country_name is just an uppercase version of the country (normal A-Z, no accented charachters in it at all)

Can anyone give me any pointers? Its driving me nuts :(

TIA!

Andy

In reply to Bizarre UTF8 issue with strings by ultranerds

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