Converting from utf8 to latin1

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

We are upgrading from perl 5.6.0 to 5.6.1 and we are getting errors in some of our modules.

It doesn't seem as perl 5.6.1 supports converting from utf8 to latin 1 the same way 5.6.0 did.

Here's how we did it with Perl 5.6.0: $string =~ tr/\0-\x{ff}//UC;

Any ideas?

Regards
/Margeir

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Re: Converting from utf8 to latin1 by mirod (Canon) on Jun 19, 2001 at 18:21 UTC
the `UC` modifier to allow `tr` to convert from UTF-8 to latin-1 is deprecated, as described in UTF8 to Latin-1 and back using Perl-6. You might want to check converting character encodings (I know, it's a shameless plug ;--) for ways to do this conversion.	[reply]
Re: Converting from utf8 to latin1 by Graham (Deacon) on Jun 19, 2001 at 18:14 UTC
This is because the functionality has been removed from perl5.6.1 man of perlunicode suggests using pack('U0', ...) and pack('C0', ...) instead	[reply]