Re: Dumping Unicode values into ascii text

[<Mar...@ml...>]

>Hi,

>I'm trying to fetch values that are unicode(latin1) encoded, and dump =
them into
a csv textfile.
>I uploaded them myself, and I'm surprised at how difficult I find it t=
o
retrieve them again

>The value I'm interested holds a "=E9". I uploaded in like this :

>my $u=3DUnicode::String::latin1($site);

>and then used $u as the value of the attribute to be uploaded.
>This worked perfect and the values are perfectly readable with an ldap=
 browser
or the console (we're using iplanet DS >here)

     i think they are readable because the ldap browser encodes unicode=
 also

>Now the question is, how can I get it back in it's original format?
>The original word was Br=E9tigny; the way it's stored now is Br=C3=A9t=
igny.
>It tried using
>$site =3D Unicode::String::latin1("$u")->utf8
>and
>$site =3D Unicode::String::utf8("$u")
>and other combinations, but the problem is I don't even know to what s=
pecific
format I have to decode the Unicode >to...

     you should convert the string to iso-8859-1
     try the perlmodule Unicode::MapUTF8;
     following lines will do the work.
          use Unicode::MapUTF8 qw(from_utf8)
          $the_latin_encoded_string =3D from_utf8({ -string =3D> $the_u=
tf8_string,
-charset =3D> "ISO-8859-1" });

     sure this only works when the input from the ldap is encoded in a =
right was
to test it you can add a value           manually in utf8 format f.e. h=
=E9ll=F2 and
read it with perl out...

>Any help or pointers would be much appreciated.
>Best regards,
>--
>Wim Van Dijck
>MIS - Internet Team - Eurocontrol

>Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.

greets
Martin
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