Re: digits in iso-8859-6 to utf8 conversion

Correction to my initial post:

I find that ASCII digits in $octets ([0-9]) end up being converted to 
Arabic-Indic digits in $utf8str ([\x0660-\x0669]).
                                    ^^^^   ^^^^
Sorry about that... (but I think emphasizes my point -- converting 
actual ASCII data to non-ASCII correlates is confusing).

        Dave G.