[Israel.pm] UTF-8

[Yona Shlomo]

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Pinkhas Nisanov wrote:

> I need to convert some text to UTF-8,
> problem is that in text I have some characters
> encoded in ISO-8859-1 and some in UTF-8.
> When I run "encode_utf8" function it
> convert ISO characters to UTF, but it also
> convert UTF characters to something unreadable.
> Is there some way to convert iso->utf and
> leave utf without change?

If you mark clearly the boundaries of the alternating
encoding, this can be easily done. You will need to write
the code, though, I am not familiar with open source code
that does this.

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