I'm reading an xml file in utf8 format. I want to strip out the xml and convert the data to iso-8859-2 octal codes for any letter not in the standard 7 digit ascii letters. So far it looks like my code works 99% of the time. But for some characters like a dash '-', it is converting it into a question mark '?'. Does this mean that it could not encode from a unicode - to the standard ascii - ?

Here is some code snippet:

use Encode;
sub convertData {
    my $tempString = encode("iso-8859-2",shift);
    my $newString = "";
    
    for ( my $l=length( $tempString), my $i = 0; $i < $l; $i++ ) {
           my $chr = substr( $tempString, $i, 1 );
            my $ascii = ord( $chr ); 
        
        if ( ( $ascii < 32 ) or ( $ascii > 126 ) ) {
            $newString .= sprintf("\\%03o", $ascii); 
        }
        else
        {
            $newString .= $chr;    
        }
    }
       
    return $newString;

 }

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Also, I am fairly new to perl and encoding, so let me know if I am doing something that is not safe or totally correct.

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