Detecting/Decoding Unicode Text

[email protected] (gohaku) Tue, 6 Apr 2004 18:05:32 -0400

Newsgroups	perl.unicode
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi everyone,
I have some ( actually many ) records in a Database that  I want to 
"clean"
Some of these records contain Unicode Text ( Mostly East-Asian )

I have tried matching for "\W+" and "\S+" but that is not what I am
looking for because I would like to keep "&" and "-"

Thanks in advance.
-gohaku

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