Nigel Peck schreef:
> I have a web application that gathers various data. When users enter
> pound signs (english money not #) a number of strange characters get
> stored in the database:
>
> Here's a copy and paste:
>
> £6.50 per hour
That is UTF8 encoded text. You can use
Encode::decode("utf8", $octets)
to convert it to Perl's internal string format.
You could equally convert it from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1
(see the Encode documentation), because the pound sign
is codepoint 163 in that character set.
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Affijn, Ruud
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