Here's my take on it.

You can use ord but you need to use it on characters not bytes. Unicode can contain multi byte characters and you have to take account of that.

The code below uses HTML::Entities::decode_entities which returns Unicode. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::Entities;

my $html_ents = q|أخيالزا&#1
+574;ر،|;

my $unicode = decode_entities($html_ents);
$unicode =~s/(.)/sprintf("%d ", ord $1)/eg;

print "html entities: $html_ents\n";
print "ord on chars: $unicode\n";

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Outputs: 
html entities: أخي الزا&#157
+4;ر،

ord on chars: 1571 1582 1610 32 1575 1604 1586 1575 1574 1585 1548

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Hopes this sheds some light on the subject.

In reply to Re: Somthing related to encoding ?? by wfsp
in thread Somthing related to encoding ?? by Anonymous Monk

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