Help identifying strange character

[GezH]

Hi all. This isn't stricly a Perl question, but I'm posting here as I know that Perl gurus are generally pretty knowledgeable when it comes to character and encoding issues.

I have an app which is receiving XML from a service and parsing it, then displaying the data. The content is containing odd characters which we can't seem to get rid of. This character simply shouldn't be there, as all the proper content is displayed normally... the odd character just appears at the end of some lines, or where there should be whitespace. The service provider has tried various encodings, to no avail.

The character is being displayed as a capital A with a hat on.

Please, is there anything I can try searching/replacing, or some way I can try and identify what this character is?

Thanks.

 

[kodr]

Here's a quick sample:

char input = 'g';
System.out.print((int)input);

You should be able to adapt this to feed your input string into this to see the ascii value of each character.

 

[kodr]

Oops, sorry, my bad. I thought this was the java forum.

I'm sure there's a way to do this in Perl, but I'm still a novice here.

 

[dkyrtata]

the equivalent Perl command would be:

$input = 'g';
print ord($input); # will print the decimal number 103

 

[GezH]

Dear KODR,

It's a few days ago, and your answer might have seemed simple... but you have no idea how much that has helped me.

Thank you!

 

[kodr]

Glad to hear it.

 

[dkyrtata]

Glad to hear it too - that Java code solved your Perl problem