Question : Change file encoding to ansi from utf8 (Win2k)

Hi,

firstly, this is a windows-perl (activestate) question (not real *nix perl=)

I have a text file that has been encoded in utf-8 format. I want to make my perl script recognise that the file is in utf-8 format, and change the contents to ansi.

Not easy. But I reckon it can go one of three ways.

1. Try to get Windows to do it (execute a windows command of some sort)?

2. Get perl to change the encoding of the file as a whole?

3. Get perl to read in the contents as utf-8 - and convert to ansi?

Personally, I think 3 is more likely. If anyone can tell me exactly what I need, and perhaps even an example, I would really appreciate it!

I have been looking at loads of modules, but have had trouble getting them to work as I intend!

Thank you very much for your help.
Best regards,

Answer : Change file encoding to ansi from utf8 (Win2k)

thought I'd just give you another quick tip, which worked for me in a certain setting:

use Unicode::String qw/ utf8 latin1/;

# supposing $input contains utf8 data, this should transform it to latin1,
# which is fairly close to ansi)

$output = latin1( utf8( $input) ) ;


I also found some references in the XML::Twig manual about Encode, and Text::iconv.
Also, Unicode::Map seems to contain quite some mappings. You might want to check those out on CPAN.

HTH