How to convert letters with accents, umlauts, etc to their ASCII counterparts in Perl?

Question

I\'m writing a program that works with documents in Perl and a lot of the documents have characters such as ä, ö, ü, é, etc (both capital and lowercase). I\'d l

Answer 1

use s/// (=Search&Replace) instead of m// (=Match)

e.g. $name =~ s/\x00c0/A/g;