Re: Converting string literal represetation of utf to utf8

A simple search and replace won't do, by the way.

Why not? What have you tried?

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Re^2: Converting string literal represetation of utf to utf8 by djihed (Novice) on Jun 17, 2011 at 10:27 UTC
What didn't work: `my $a = "\\xC4\\x80"; utf8::decode($a); # does not work, \\x are literal ascii. # is still the same. $a =~ s/\\x(\w\w)/\x$1/g; # Does not work. \x is interpreted withou +t the code points.` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Converting string literal represetation of utf to utf8 by moritz (Cardinal) on Jun 17, 2011 at 11:52 UTC
Well, at some point you need to make the actual conversion. For example `s/\\x(\w\w)/chr hex $1/ge` [download] Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply] [d/l]