Hi,

I am looking for a perl module that converts any unicode characters in a string to its closest equivalent letter in ascii, (and perhaps, otherwise, the encoded value of it, for example: &#123)

my $x = 'Château';

some_func($x);

output: 'Chateau';

Note the 'a' has turned into a proper letter 'a', Im not too worried about losing the tilde information, as long as it is human readible, and xml parseable.

Never mind, I found the solution to encode it here: http://perl-xml.sourceforge.net/faq/#encoding_conversion

I guess the solution here is to make a hash of all the unicode letters and map them to the equivalent letter in ascii.

In reply to converting unicode string to ascii or encoded by dmn001

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