I know very little about uuencoding and even less about pack/unpack, but I have a sneaking suspicion that pack/unpack would be the way to go with that. Could somebody give an example of this?

The "inspiration" came from using a hex editor to debug UTF8 issues, and originally, I wanted to use the bytes from UTF8 characters in a sentence to hold the latin bytes for "just another Perl hacker,". But of course the first 255 characters in UTF8 and Latin-1 are the same, so I couldn't do it without resorting to a different script within UTF8, which would mean that it wouldn't work on many machines.

So I settled for making it unreadable instead :)

Clint