use strict; use warnings; use Encode qw( encode decode ); { my @charset = grep $_ ne "\x{FFFD}", map decode('cp1252', chr($_)), 0x00..0xFF; my %map; for my $dec (@charset) { my $enc = encode 'UTF-8', decode 'cp1252', encode 'UTF-8', $dec; push @{ $map{$enc} }, $dec; } for (values(%map)) { warn(sprintf("Ambiguous: %v04X\n", join '', @$_)) if @$_ > 1; $_ = $_->[0]; } my $pat = join '|', map quotemeta, sort { length($b) <=> length($a) || $a cmp $b } keys %map; my $re = qr/$pat/; while (<>) { s/\G(?:($re)|(.))/ if ($1) { $map{$1} } else { die("Unrecognized sequence starting at pos", $-[2]); } /seg; } }