I'm just guessing here, but might it be that your text editor and your Perl interpreter disagree on character sets? I've never seen a literal high-bit character (such as ñ) in source code before, which may be coincidence or may not. For a test, why not try replacing the right hand side of each substitution with the escape sequence for the relevant character? That is, change your last substitution to 

s/ñ/\xf1/;

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and so on.

Better yet, though, don't write your own code to do it, use HTML::Entities to decode each string, thus: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict; # you were using strict, weren't you? ;-)
use HTML::Entities 'decode';

# snip (your MAIL statements here)

for (@L) {
        print MAIL decode $_;
}

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Isn't that simpler? :-)

While I'm in "use CPAN" mode, I suggest you look at HTML::Parser for the tag-removing regex--parsing HTML (even just taking out tags) with regular expressions is a dangerous idea.

Good luck!


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In reply to Re: Spanish special characters by ChemBoy
in thread Spanish special characters by Anonymous Monk

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