jcmoon - 10:23 pm on Aug 26, 2008 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the tips! I tried the transforming line suggested, but for some reason the output was always the same as the input, no matter how I tweaked that line or tried to use pieces of it.

The decode_utf8 function did change things up, but the page ended up showing mojibake ... d'oh!

I might just not be doing those items correctly ...

But here's what my partner-in-crime found: do a google search for /perl mutiple-byte characters ken lunde/ and you'll find a handful of PDF's from one of the geniuses at Adobe Systems. In one place he off-hand mentions that a line like $string = "\xE6\x97\xA5\xE6\x9C\xAC"; has the same effect of putting the word "Japan" in Japanese in there.

And that, luckily, is something my scripts can anticipate, recognize, and react to.