Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:28:17 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: for perl wizards. Message-ID: <4ACF0231.5010801@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091009083516.GA60096@thought.org> References: <20091009083516.GA60096@thought.org>
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Gary Kline wrote:
> Whenever I save a wordpeocessoe file [OOo, say] into a
> text file, I get a slew of hex codes to indicate the char to be
> used. I'm looking for a perl one-liner or script to translate
> hex back into ', ", -- [that's a dash), and so forth. Why does
> this fail to trans the hex code to an apostrophe?
>=20
> perl -pi.bak -e 's/\xe2\x80\x99/'/g' =20
>=20
> If there any another other tools, I'm interested!
>=20
That's a problem with shell quoting rather than perl. You're using '
as the delimiter on your command line, so you need to escape any instance=
s
within commands. Or you can replace a literal ' with the ASCII character=
code \x27.
However, in the more general sense what you are doing is replacing certai=
n
UTF-8 character codes with similar characters from the ASCII range. That=
sounds to me like a job for iconv(1) -- in ports as converters/libiconv
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
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