I have an xml file that has been edited by someone using a French keyboard.

Somehow the file ended up with the characters i>>? (except the question mark is upside down) at the beginning of the file. The characters are invisible, I cannot see them with any text editor that I have tried. They only show up if I diff the file against a US version.

My questions are -

1. Does anyone know what these charaters are and how they got there?
2. Can I use some kind of PERL script to get rid of them?

: I have an xml file that has been edited by someone using a French
: keyboard.
:
Ooh la la...c'est affreux!

: Somehow the file ended up with the characters i>>? (except the question
: mark is upside down) at the beginning of the file. The characters are
: invisible, I cannot see them with any text editor that I have tried.
: They only show up if I diff the file against a US version.
:
: My questions are -
:
: 1. Does anyone know what these charaters are and how they got there?
I'm guessing maybe it's something unicode related.

: 2. Can I use some kind of PERL script to get rid of them?
:
Well, you can always remove any non-ASCII characters. Something like...

$the_text =~ s/./ord($1) > 127 ? '' : $1/ge;

May work.

Jonathan

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for(74,117,115,116){$::a.=chr};(($_.='qwertyui')&&
(tr/yuiqwert/her anot/))for($::b);for($::c){$_.=$^X;
/(p.{2}l)/;$_=$1}$::b=~/(..)$/;print("$::a$::b $::c hack$1.");