Re: HTML::Strip and UTF8 -- is there some way I can just skip all the "UTF8 only" entities?

[tphyahoo]

in reply to HTML::Strip and UTF8 -- is there some way I can just skip all the "UTF8 only" entities?

Answering my own question (partially), I think I have to do something along the lines of

use strict;
use warnings;
use Encode::Encoder;

my $utf8String="\x{2019}";

my $latin1String = latin1ify($utf8String);
print "$latin1String\n";

sub latin1ify {
    my $string = shift || "";
    Encode::encode( "iso-8859-1" ,
                    Encode::decode_utf8($string)
                  );
}

which gives "?" and then strip the question marks.

But I have to go now, so I'll finish this another time.