Re: unwanted (bogus) characters in marc

From: Thomas Krichel <krichel_at_nyob> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:17:14 +0200 To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU

  Ere Maijala writes

> # Fix non-UTF-8 characters with two highest bits set (we assume they
> are actually ISO-8859-1)

  What about

use Encode::Guess qw/latin-1/;
$decoded=decode("Guess", $dodgy_input);

  $decoded then should be a utf-8 string with utf8 flag on.

  Cheers,

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