Generally, dealing with data in multiple encodings is far more pleasant in Perl (or at least less unpleasant). I came back to Perl for this very reason when I h

Generally, dealing with data in multiple encodings is far more pleasant in Perl (or at least less unpleasant). I came back to Perl for this very reason when I had to write a script that pulled data from our Active Directory (unicode), our ERP system's database (Latin-1) and a bunch of text files (CP1252), merge it and render it into a HTML file or an Excel sheet (unicode). I tried using Python, but I quickly gave up in frustration.