On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:12:50AM +0200, Ismail Dönmez wrote: > I think just a better method is to use (not tested): > > if( is_utf8($str) ) > { > return decode_utf8($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 Kögler. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html