Hi Marshall

My confusion began when I looked at "perldoc perluniintro" and "perldoc perlunicode". It sounds like values > 255 get wrapped around if ascii encoding is wrongly assumed. If anyone can straighten me out, that is appreciated. Should have included that in the original post.

The repsonse from earlier led me to a webpage about various encodings. From that, I see that some data entry from the other organization may accidentally have set their encoding to "CP1252 -- WinLatin1". I happended to see "A0" which seems to only apply to that encoding.

When I get a chance, I will try out the substr and sysread approaches.

Thanks, Jim

In reply to Re^4: unknown encoding by jimw54321
in thread unknown encoding by jimw54321

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