Re: Convert ISO8859-1 to UTF8

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Mar...@ml... wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>=20
> how can i convert an iso8859-x string that is read out of a file into an
> utf8 string that is written to a ldap server. i have already used the
> perlmodule convert::recode
> but it doesn't works... also the command 'recode xxx..xxx file.xy' is no
> solution becaus it converts the whole file and not only the needed
> string...
>=20
> any help would be welcome
> have a nice day
> martin
>=20
>=20
>=20

Perl 5.6 comes with built-in utf8 support, so you might want to use that.

There is also the Unicode-String module from CPAN:

	<http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=3DUnicode-String>

The README for Unicode-String includes this example:

	print latin1("na=EFve\n")->utf8;

which looks pretty much what you want.

Cheers,

Chris