Okay, it's not tr after all.

On $BJ?@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(B 19/12/01, at 12:04, Chas. Owens wrote:

> On Nov 30, 2007 9:43 PM, Joel Rees <joel_rees@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I guess it would help if I posted my code and what it puts out.
> snip
>
> Whoa, way to much information.

:-)

> Try to reproduce your issue with the
> least amount of code and data.

Actually, after cleaning out some of the extraneous stuff, I can see  
it is not tr/// doing the dirty deed after all (which is a relief, in  
a way):

> chatter_0	this+is+a+test.+%82%B1%82%EA%82%CD%83e%83X%83g%82%C5%82% 
> B7%81B
> chatter_tr1	this is a test. %82%B1%82%EA%82%CD%83e%83X%83g%82%C5%82% 
> B7%81B
> chatter_tr	this is a test. (I1M(BeXg(IE7(BB
> chatter	this+is+a+test.+$B$3$l$O%F%9%H$G$9!#(B

Even though stripping the '+' out forces what had been intermittent  
behavior, I can see that tr/// is doing its job right.

>   Off hand I would say your problem is
> probably with the encoding of your data (and Perl's lack of knowledge
> about it).  Try using the locale or encoding pragmas.

Yeah, I'll have to go back to that black magic.

Thanks everybody for being listening ears.

Joel Rees
(waiting for a 3+GHz ARM processor to come out,
to test Steve's willingness to switch again.)