thanks --

ok if I run uniquote, the first two seem correct:

> perl -nle "print if /\P{ASCII}/" test.txt | uniquote.pl -vE cp1252
sous r\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}serve

> perl -nle "print if /\P{ASCII}/" test.txt | uniquote.pl -vE latin1
sous r\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}serve


> perl -nle "print if /\P{ASCII}/" test.txt | uniquote.pl -vE macroman
sous r\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE}serve

So what's happening? (sorry, still clueless.)