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From: mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Koegler)
Subject: Re: Fix UTF Encoding issue
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 09:20:21 +0100
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:12:50AM +0200, Ismail D=F6nmez wrote:
> I think just a better method is to use (not tested):
>=20
> if( is_utf8($str) )=20
> {
> 	return decode_utf8($str);
> }
> else {
> 	return decode($str);
> }

I already tried this function. It does not test, if a string is
really UTF-8. It seems to be to intended to check, if perl stores
the string internally in a multi byte encoding.

mfg Martin K=F6gler.