The other thing that I have to confess is that I'm doing this in W*ndows. After struggling with
use open ':std', ':locale';

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(fails "Cannot figure out an encoding to use")
and 
Win32::Locale;

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and trying to understand layers, open, and PerlIO
my head is spinning, and I'm nowhere nearer to my goal.
(a neat way of getting both spreadsheets to return "Güldenstädt's Redstart" for "Phoenicurus erythrogastrus")

The ugly hack that all this started with does work, so I guess I'll just stick with ugliness

RichardH

In reply to Re^4: One bird, two Unicode names by RCH
in thread One bird, two Unicode names by RCH

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