Re: UTF8 2 Latin1

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Benjamin Franz wrote:

> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:03:36 -0800 (PST)
> From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare(_at_)nihongo(_dot_)org>
> To: David Zochowski <david(_dot_)zochowski(_at_)memiq(_dot_)com>
> Cc: "'perl-unicode(_at_)perl(_dot_)org'" <perl-unicode(_at_)perl(_dot_)org>
> Subject: Re: UTF8 2 Latin1
>
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, David Zochowski wrote:
>
> > Hallo!
> >
> > I do not know how to convert utf8 to latin1. I have Convert::Scalar tried,
> > but it does not work for the 2bites chars (german chars). 
> > Could you help me? Do you know any other way to do it?
> Look on CPAN for the module 'Unicode::MapUTF8'. Note: This will not fix
> the problem if you are trying to convert characters from UTF8 that do not
> exist in Latin1 (ISO-8859-1).
Markus Kuhn's 'transtab' is useful for this.  I've got a very simple perl
module which provides access to it if anyone wants a copy.  I'd welcome
some feedback.  email me if you want it.

Andrew McNaughton





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