Good point. It would be better to avoid removing the diacritics if possible. I did find that setting the binary attribute to true for Text::CSV did prevent the script from choking on the diacritics.

I do not know the character encoding and don't know how to identify it, so I asked Mr. Google (Mr. Google knows all!) and am looking through what he dredged up. I looked at the documentation in CPAN for Text::CSV::Encoded. It appears that, in order to use this, you need to know the enocoding for the input and what you want to use for the output.

I seem to have it working fairly well except for some of the cases where the weight is "" or 0.0. I haven't yet figured out why it works correctly for some records and not for others. I will look at the records where it fails and see if I can identify that.

Thanks very much.