Hi Moritz,

Thanks for this. I feel I'm pretty much doing as you suggest. However, I tried the link you suggested and copied some code (from about the middle of the page). Changed it a little and I get the following: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Encode qw(encode decode);

my $enc = 'utf-8'; # This script is stored as UTF-8
my $str = "úlcera\n";

# Byte strings:
print ucfirst $str; # prints 'úlcera', ucfirst didn't have any effect.

# text strings::
my $text_str = decode($enc, $str);
$text_str = ucfirst $text_str;
print encode($enc, $text_str); # prints '?lcera', ucfirst as specified
+.

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Where the capitalised "Ú" is displayed as a white square symbol under Windows or a question mark symbol under Linux.

Do I need to configure anything on my machine to make this work?

Regards

Steve

In reply to Re^2: Accented letter is not capitalised by Steve_BZ
in thread Accented letter is not capitalised by Steve_BZ

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