Regex: URI & UTF8 en/decoding with Perl
Regex for URI encoding (RFC 2396)
# encode s/([^\w()'*~!.-])/sprintf '%%%02x', ord $1/eg; # decode s/%([A-Fa-f\d]{2})/chr hex $1/eg;
Regex for UTF8 encoding
# Latin-1 to UTF8 s/([\x80-\xFF])/chr(0xC0|ord($1)>>6).chr(0x80|ord($1)&0x3F)/eg; # UTF8 to Latin s/([\xC0-\xDF])([\x80-\xBF])/chr(ord($1)<<6&0xC0|ord($2)&0x3F)/eg;