RE: Problem with Encode module

At 4:20 pm -0700 7/7/06, Jianyang Tai wrote:

>Thanks John. The original characters came from Japan, don't know if they
>use some proprietary extension of shift_jis. Attached is the zipped
>file. Hope it come across correctly this time. It should contains
>characters 0x 87408741.

That's windows codepage 932 so...  from_to $text, "cp932", "utf-8"

<http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP932.TXT>

0x84BB	0x2530	#BOX DRAWINGS DOWN HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT
0x84BC	0x2525	#BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL LIGHT AND LEFT HEAVY
0x84BD	0x2538	#BOX DRAWINGS UP HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT
0x84BE	0x2542	#BOX DRAWINGS VERTICAL HEAVY AND HORIZONTAL LIGHT
0x8740	0x2460	#CIRCLED DIGIT ONE
0x8741	0x2461	#CIRCLED DIGIT TWO
0x8742	0x2462	#CIRCLED DIGIT THREE
0x8743	0x2463	#CIRCLED DIGIT FOUR

JD