Re: Replacing unicode characters

From: Bart Lateur (bart.lateur_at_pandora.be)
Date: 02/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 11:28:42 GMT

Tulan W. Hu wrote:

>I tried the above and got the following error message
>"\x{2019}" does not map to iso-8859-1 at utf.pl line 8, <$FILE> line 161.
>but the pre-5.8 code just removes the characters for me.

Don't use Latin-1 for the encoding, try cp1252 (AKA Windows) instead.
That turns out to be chr(0x92) ("right single quotation mark"). For the
whole list, see

<http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT>

If you don't want the Windows character set, I'd replace all "single
quotation marks" with apostrophes, ("'", chr(39)), and all "double
quotation marks" with quotes ('"', chr(34)). 

-- 
	Bart.

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