Neither of those fallbacks is OK, I want á converted to accent
stripped version of itself i.e. a. The second solution isn't very
helpful either, it's basically tr replacement table which is not much
fun to write when majority of upper 128 characters need to be
converted. There's gotta be a simpler and more elegant solution.
thanks anyway.
sorry for bugging people here with a trivial question. I need to
convert from MacRoman encoding to asci (7-bit). Encode package
simply replaces out of range characters with a question mark. I
need something intelligent lexically speaking. For example aacute
should be converted to a. Any suggestions?
Maybe you need to implement your own fallback method.
FYI Encode already has fallback methods as follows.
$ascii = encode("ascii", $utf8, $fallbacks);
where;
$fallback is á (U+00E1) will be
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Encode::FB_PERLQQ \x{00E1}
Encode::HTMLCREF á
Encode::XMLCREF á
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If any of that will suffice, go ahead use it. If it does not, you
have go go like this;
$ascii = $utf8;
$ascii =~ s/([^\x00-\x7f])/&your_own_fallback($1)/eg;
Hope that helps.
Dan the Encode Maintainer
