Re: Converting string literal represetation of utf to utf8

Is this what you want:

my $a = "\\xC4\\x80";
$a =~ s/\\x([0-9A-Fa-f]+)/chr(hex($1))/ge;
utf8::decode($a);
printf "length=%d, ord=0x%x\n", length($a), ord($a);
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Outputs:

length=1, ord=0x100
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Dave.

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Re^2: Converting string literal represetation of utf to utf8 by djihed (Novice) on Jun 17, 2011 at 14:42 UTC
Yes, thanks.	[reply]