From: Martin Koegler Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:44:12 GMT Subject: Re: Fix UTF Encoding issue Message-ID: <20071204084412.GA19597@auto.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <200712041033.39579.ismail@pardus.org.tr> On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:33:39AM +0200, Ismail Dönmez wrote: > Following to_utf8 function works for me : For me too (Debian sarge+etch). > sub to_utf8 { > ·   my $str = shift; > >     if(utf8::valid($str)) >     { >         utf8::decode($str); >     } > · >     return $str; In the original thread, there was some discussion, that some people might want a different fallback endcoding. So mayme you should keep the second call to decode for the fallback encoding. > } mfg Martin Kögler