> It's "Shlomi" (English spelling) - not "Schlomi" (German Spelling). Many > people make this mistake.
My apologies. > What does "cat /etc/debian_version" say? 4.0 > > I hit on an idea that each text file coming from different sources will > > have the Unicode UTF8 hex string of all the special characters. > > See here.http://lwp.interglacial.com/appf_01.htm > > > For example the Danish A-ring ( A with a ring on top ) in the text file > > will be written as : 0xc30x85. This was found to be acceptable by all > > parties. > > > Now the question is, I will have a text file with lots of English > You can use regexes to match specific characters. But generally your converter > (e.g: of ahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language) wil ldo > that for you. Do you need to guess the language of the document? I still don't > understand exactly what you want to do. > Lets say a line contains this text in a file. "This is a line of text containing 0xc30x86n exotic character". How can I read this line from a file and evaluate this on the fly to: "This is a line of text containing AEn exotic character".( AE here is the fused AE in Danish) Hope this explanation was clear! Chandra -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/