[Linux-disciples] Converting to ISO-8859-1

[Stephen R Laniel]

Does anyone have much i18n experience? I'm converting from
what I suspect is UTF-16 -- it's a Windows document -- for
import into Zope, which needs ISO-8859-1. When I try to
write out a file in Perl using the latter, I get a number of
errors like so:

"\x{2019}" does not map to iso-8859-1 at /home/slaniel/bin/lanielLib.pm line 585.
"\x{201c}" does not map to iso-8859-1 at /home/slaniel/bin/lanielLib.pm line 585.
"\x{201d}" does not map to iso-8859-1 at /home/slaniel/bin/lanielLib.pm line 585.

Those \x{...} blocks are just Unicode code points, for
little things like open double quotes and apostrophes. I'm
puzzled why Perl wouldn't know how to get that code point
out in ISO-8859-1. Any idea?

-- 
Stephen R. Laniel
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