Re: Question about converting utf8 to ascii and char refs

[email protected] said:
> I have a UTF-8 string which I want to output as ascii and have the UTF8
> characters converted to numeric character references.
>
> I tried using Encode with the FB_HTMLCREFS fail back option enabled,
> but for the 2 byte UTF8 characters, 2 incorrect char refs were printed
> out instead of the correct one.  

Try something like this (assuming that $_ contains the string, and has its 
utf8 flag set):

    s/([^[:ascii:]])/sprintf("&#%d;",ord($1))/eg;

For each utf8 character that is outside the ascii range, this replaces it 
with a decimal-based numeric character reference.

	Dave Graff