Thanks very much, and you're right, I am on a mac (macperl 5.8.6; OS X
10.4, primarily). How do I change that string to unicode? Would I use
Encode::encode_utf8()?
Thanks for the timely reply.
On Nov 6, 2007, at 7:06 PM, via RT wrote:
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> \x{8e} is correctly transliterated as empty-string, because \x{8e} is
> not "é" in Unicode; it is nothing, thence, nothing.
> Text::Unidecode requires that the input be in Unicode.
>
> You're apparently forgetting to apply the Encoding filter that would
> translate your non-Unicode encoding, into Unicode.
>
> (My spidey sense is tingling and telling me your encoding is the
> old-timey encoding MacAscii, but that's just a guess.)
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