[OAI-implementers] SPECIAL CHARACTERS...

[Pete Cliff]

Hello!

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Simeon Warner wrote:

> Tim mentioned encoding support in perl5.8 in his earlier post and I tried
> it out some time ago. It seems pretty good and is probably a good 
> solution if the data coming from your database is in a well-defined (and 
> supported) encoding such as latin1.

Don't know if anyone has mentioned it on this list yet but the module:

 Unicode::String

is pretty useful for this character set business too...

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