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

If I possess a character string for which the code page is known how do I convert it to a valid unicode string in Perl?
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Re: Conversion between code page and unicode in Perl
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 10, 2012 at 09:26 UTC

    If you want Unicode code points (replace 1252 with the code page in question), 

    my $code_points = decode('cp1252', $cp1252_bytes);

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    If you want UTF-16le, the encoding Windows calls "Unicode", continue with 

    my $utf16le_bytes = encode('UTF-16le', $code_points);

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    decode and encode are provided by Encode. It's from_to can combine decode+encode.

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Re: Conversion between code page and unicode in Perl
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 10, 2012 at 08:40 UTC
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