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dstrom has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I want to convert ascii text that represents Chinese characters to these characters in for example utf. Chinese characters in my file are encoded in two hexes in GB, e.g., 中 is (D6 D0). I just have the ascii text of the two hexes "D6 D0", etc., how can this be converted to Chinese characters? I appreciate your help, thanks in advance...