comment on

I doubt that. I suspect the HTML was buggy too.
Could you show the HTML's HEAD element and the od -c output for réserve?
( Update: hum, .exe? You might not have od. Alternative: perl -nE"say unpack 'H*', $_ if /serv/;" file.html )

I once again recommend the uniquote program for such things. It is really way better than od or cat -v or anything, because it actually shows you the proper characters.

$ perl -Mutf8 -CS -wle 'print "réserve"' | uniquote
r\N{U+E9}serve
$ perl -Mutf8 -CS -wle 'print "réserve"' | uniquote -x
r\x{E9}serve
$ perl -Mutf8 -CS -wle 'print "réserve"' | uniquote -v
r\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}serve
$ perl -Mutf8 -CS -wle 'print "réserve"' | uniquote -b
r\xC3\xA9serve

$ perl -Mutf8 -CS -wle 'print "réserve"' | uniquote --xml
r&#xe9;serve
$ perl -Mutf8 -CS -wle 'print "réserve"' | uniquote --html
r&#233;serve
$ perl -Mutf8 -CS -wle 'print "réserve"' | uniquote --html --verbose
r&eacute;serve

$ perl -Mutf8 -CS -wle 'print "réserve"' | nfd | uniquote -v
re\N{COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT}serve

$ perl -Mutf8 -CS -wle 'print "réserve"' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16 | 
+uniquote --encoding=UTF-16 -x
r\x{E9}serve
$ perl -Mutf8 -CS -wle 'print "réserve"' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16 | 
+uniquote -b
\xFE\xFF\x00r\x00\xE9\x00s\x00e\x00r\x00v\x00e\x00
$ perl -Mutf8 -CS -wle 'print "réserve"' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t MacRoman 
+| uniquote --encoding=MacRoman -x
r\x{E9}serve
$ perl -Mutf8 -CS -wle 'print "réserve"' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t MacRoman 
+| uniquote -b
r\x8Eserve

$ perl -Mutf8 -CS -wle 'print "réserve"' > reserve.utf8
$ iconv -f UTF-8 -t MacRoman < reserve.utf8 > reserve.macroman
$ iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF16-BE < reserve.utf8 > reserve.utf16be

$ uniwc reserve.{macroman,utf8,utf16be}
   Paras    Lines    Words   Graphs    Chars    Bytes File
       0        1        1        8        8        8 reserve.macroman
       0        1        1        8        8        9 reserve.utf8
       0        1        1        8        8       16 reserve.utf16be

$ uniquote reserve.{macroman,utf8,utf16be}
r\N{U+E9}serve
r\N{U+E9}serve
r\N{U+E9}serve

$ uniquote -b reserve.{macroman,utf8,utf16be}
r\x8Eserve
r\xC3\xA9serve
\x00r\x00\xE9\x00s\x00e\x00r\x00v\x00e\x00
[download]

See how nifty that is?

In reply to Re^4: Encoding/decoding question by tchrist
in thread Encoding/decoding question by slugger415

Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>
Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.


laziness, impatience, and hubris
	PerlMonks