Re^6: Encoding/decoding question

[slugger415]

heh - can't say I follow all that -- I save the FB page as HTML from Firefox, and run tidy on it to make it XHTML. I'm doing all this on Windows 7 so I have no idea how or where it's being encoded. Tidy does allow various encodings but I seem to be getting wonky results no matter what I set it at.

Anyway I tried running uniquote on text file (test.txt) containing only this string:

sous réserve

Here's what I got:

> perl -nle 'print if /\P{ASCII}/' test.txt | uniquote.pl -vE cp1252
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

Not sure what that means... appreciate the help...

[Anonymous Monk]

Can't find string terminator...Not sure what that means... appreciate the help...

'perl -le' not working on the command line

[slugger415]

thanks --

ok if I run uniquote, the first two seem correct:

> perl -nle "print if /\P{ASCII}/" test.txt | uniquote.pl -vE cp1252
sous r\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}serve

> perl -nle "print if /\P{ASCII}/" test.txt | uniquote.pl -vE latin1
sous r\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}serve


> perl -nle "print if /\P{ASCII}/" test.txt | uniquote.pl -vE macroman
sous r\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE}serve

So what's happening? (sorry, still clueless.)