To convert, try Unicode::String - availble as a PPM.

As to testing; should be the same when ord($chr)<127, but
above that you might be able to do something by testing
the ord (ie. ASCII value) of the character against a Unicode::String::chr
(ie character) of that value  The latter function name may be
wrong: check its POD.

Then you make it into a PM for us all to use ;-)

lee

At 17:28 15/05/2002 +0200, Johan Lindstrom wrote:
> At 11:20 2002-05-15 -0400, Greg Sidelinger wrote:
> >Are there any easy ways to test and see if something is Unicode and then 
> >convert it to something else like standard ascii.
> 
> How about that for a coincidence? :)
> http://use.perl.org/~jplindstrom/journal/4855
> 
> I think you need to know it's Unicode though, otherwise the chars > 127 
> could be some other char (e.g. in Latin-1 or somesuch). Don't you know 
> what encoding your input has?
> 
> Caveat: I'm a Unicode amateur, someone else can probably give you a way 
> better answer.
> 
> 
> /J
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