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

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 03:40:34PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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?

I think the answer is Unicode::String:
http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/Unicode-String-2.09/String.pm

It seems to have done the trick -- and without many lines of
code! Just read in a string, and then write it back out
using the Unicode::String::latin1() function. Nice. I don't
think I even had to tell it the encoding for the incoming
string -- only for the outgoing one. I'm a bit puzzled how
that's possible, but it seems to be.

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