I need to read files written in a variety of charsets (Big5, Arabic,
Hebrew, etc) and write their contents to an oracle database. This
problem is easy to solve in Java where each feed gets converted to a
ucs-2 string, but, if possible, I need to write the code in perl. Can
this be done? The third edition of Programming Perl says locales and
unicode don't mix well yet. I guess that means I cannot convert from
Big5 to utf-8, for instance. Is that correct? Could I instead rely on
the database driver to convert from the foreign charset to unicode?
Thanks in advance to anyone who might be able to help.
