> I found the script I mentioned. > > The author is Scott Hanson <shanson@mail.hh.provi.de> . > The title of the posting was: > Yet another Mac2ISO character converter > > The statement is not a "tr" but an "s": > s/[\x80-\xff]/$trans[ord($&)-(128)]/ge ; > ...where $trans is the array of things you want to substitute for the upper characters, be they characters or strings or nulls. -- Scott Hanson <shanson@mail.hh.provi.de> Asendorf, Germany work: Inter-Research Science Publisher <scott@int-res.com> http://www.int-res.com