The overall issue is "Encodings". You need to find out what encoding your input is in, and what encoding your output is in (and what the program you're using to display your output thinks the output is encoded in), and make sure that you properly convert between these, or send the appropriate headers etc. to tell all programs involved about the encoding.

For Perl, the best general approach is to convert to UTF-8 on input, and to convert to the target encoding on output using Encode::decode and ::encode. Ideally, your target encoding also is UTF-8. For example, if you're outputting to HTML, you can tell the browser the encoding in the <!DOCTYPE part of the document.

In reply to Re: Characters Changed To Codes by Corion
in thread Characters Changed To Codes by HalNineThousand

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