Re: Latest approach to controlling non-printable / multi-byte characters

2007-02-09 Thread Peter Otten
metaperl wrote: > There is no end to the number of frantic pleas for help with > characters in the realm beyond ASCII. And the answer is "first decode to unicode, then modify" in nine out of ten cases. > However, in searching thru them, I do not see a workable approach to > changing them into ot

Latest approach to controlling non-printable / multi-byte characters

2007-02-08 Thread metaperl
There is no end to the number of frantic pleas for help with characters in the realm beyond ASCII. However, in searching thru them, I do not see a workable approach to changing them into other things. I am dealing with a file and in my Emacs editor, I see "MASSACHUSETTS- AMHERST" ... in other wor