hi, I had to convert several symbols from German alphabet to different represantation... and used something like this until now :
sub blah { $_ = shift; s/ä/ae/g; s/Ä/AE/g; s/ö/oe/g; s/Ö/OE/g; s/ü/ue/
+g; s/Ü/UE/g; s/ß/ss/g; $_ }

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But I now need more complicated conversation so I started rewriting(see code below)... but after I thougt a litle bit I decided first to ask, may be there is easier way... these language depenend stuff has always been a black-box to me.. ...reading pelrlocale and POSIX to clear out the things a little bit... may be u can help me..
This just from the scratch I even not tested it .. on the NT it seems that dosen't work.. (going to Linux console :") ) 
$tstr = 'abc äÄöÖüÜß test';

%subsTable = (
    'ä' => 'ae', 'Ä' => 'AE', 'ö' => 'oe', 'Ö' => 'OE',
    'ü' => 'ue', 'Ü' => 'UE', 'ß' => 'ss'
);
$notInSQL = qr{'|`|´|"|,|%|$};
$inSQL = qr{`|´|"|,|$};

sub blah { 
    my $str = shift; 
    my $regex = join "|", map quotemeta, keys %subsHash;
    print $regex,"\n";
    $regex = qr/$regex/;
    $str =~ s/($regex)/$subsHash{$1}/g;
#    if ($str =~ /^\s*(SELECT|INSERT|UPDATE|DELETE)/i ) { $str =~ s/$i
+nSQL/ /g }
#        else { $str =~ s/$notInSQL/ /g };
#may be have to use tr/// here        
    return $str
};


print "orig : $tstr\n";
print blah($tstr)."\n";

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these are not all symbols to be converted I'm expecting more to come...

In reply to transliterating.. char-conversation by raptor

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