Archive for the 'Unicode' Category

Converting a database to Unicode with Perl

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

It’s happened a few times—I’m transfering data from one database to another and the old one has a few accented characters in it, but came from the days before Unicode. So if you’re using Perl to pull data from the first database, if you have a string with a a word like “façade”, when you […]