convert unicode file to ansi file

Diony97 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

i'm trying to convert a unicode file to ansi. is there a
good module for this. i can't seem to find a good
way. i'm creating the file through a system command
from winmsd. when i try to read the file it's not what i'm looking for
because windows creates it as unicode.

thanks,
ba

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Re: convert unicode file to ansi file by borisz (Canon) on Mar 02, 2005 at 16:16 UTC
I do not know what zou mean by ansi? I choice latin1 for you. `perl -Mencoding=utf-8,STDOUT,iso-8859-1 -pe1 <in >out` [download] Boris	[reply] [d/l]
Re: convert unicode file to ansi file by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Mar 02, 2005 at 16:05 UTC
YOu probably want to look at the perlunicode manpage as well as the standard Encode module. /J\	[reply]
Re^2: convert unicode file to ansi file by Diony97 (Initiate) on Mar 02, 2005 at 16:33 UTC
thanks...i'll check those out ba	[reply]