Re^2: How do I convert a sequence of hexes (D0 D6) to Chinese characters (中)?

[grantm]

I'm not sure that's what the original poster needs. chr(0xD6D0) means Unicode code point U+D6D0 which is the character '훐'. Whereas the poster said the bytes represented by the ASCII string 'D6D0' are the character '中' in a 'GB' encoding. I'm not very knowledgeable about Asian encodings but I'll assume that the specific encoding is GB-2312.

So the things we need to do are:

1. convert the ASCII hex string into bytes
2. decode the bytes from GB-2312 to Perl's internal character representation
3. convert to a suitable output encoding

Here's a complete script which does all of that:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Encode qw(decode);

my $ascii_hex = 'D6D0';   # continue for as many bytes as required

my $bytes = pack('H*', $ascii_hex);

my $character_string = decode('gb2312', $bytes);

binmode(STDOUT, ':utf8');

print $character_string, "\n";