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From: ruba@molbio.ethz.ch (Rudolf Baumann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: problems with umlaute
Keywords: msb umlaute
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Date: 1 Jan 91 22:20:10 GMT
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I have a small problem converting 'Umlaute' in a database file from 
a Vax. To preserve the special characters I transferred the file in
binary mode. The  characters in question have the MSB set eg. an
a umlaut becomes octal 344. Is there a any possibility in perl to
substitute such a character by a more useful sequence like 'ae'
(for a umlaut)? I didn't succeed with my attempts to solve the problem.
My intention is to print out a table from this file, but the foreign
characters disturb the appearance of this table.
Thank you for any hint.
	ruedi
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