Re: UTF-8 file to ASCII file converter

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <20020411070418.63085.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Pedro Ferreira <pedro_nf@xxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
>
> I already have a perl script (thanks to Oyvind A.
> Holm) that converts an ascii file with U+nnnn unicode
> codes to an utf-8 file.
> Now I would like to do the oposite, convert an utf-8
> file to an ascii file, each utf-8 character would be
> encoded back to U+nnnn. Many thanks in advance for any
> help!
> 

You'd probably be better off using C-like escape codes \uXXXX and
\UXXXXXXXX with \ escaped as \\.

	-hpa
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