in reply to vowel mutations

The text editor you are viewing the file with probably expects a different character encoding than your terminal.

It would be helpfull to know your OS, the charset settings of your terminal and of your text editor.

Since you list Umlauts it's probably a latin1 <-> utf8 problem, but that's just a guess.

And take a look at Encode and utf8.

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Re^2: vowel mutations
by m0ve (Scribe) on Aug 16, 2007 at 11:22 UTC
    OS : WinXP SP2
    and charset, as u assumed, should be latin1.
    i tried various texteditors (textpad, windows editor and wordpad, ...)
    thanks for the links, i'lll look for something helpfull there