Re: Problem converting euro from windows-1252 to UTF-8 !!

nevosa wrote:

I am trying to convert RFC-2047 encode MIME headers to UTF-8. It is
working fine so far using the MIME::WordDecoder and Unicode::MapUTF8
CPAN packages. I have done some unit testing and it seems to work fine
except for when I try to convert windows-1252 encode euro(0x80) symbol
to UTF-8.

Subject: This sub has non-ascii chars.Pound:
?windows-1252?Q?Euro_=80_?=

In this case the conversion simply fails and what i see as output is 2
spaces (0x20 0x20).

Windows-1252 differs from "default" ISO-8859-1 by using displayable
characters rather than control characters in the 0x80-0x9F range. If
you're running *nix, Windows-1252 might not be available.

To make sure, see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252

And then try to display the characters in the yellow squares. If
they're not correctly converted, you've found the culprit.

Hope this helps,

--
Bart

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